Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Politician
1954-02-26
Quotes by Recep Tayyip Erdogan
-
However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.
Read quote -
As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.
Read quote -
But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.
Read quote -
Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.
Read quote -
A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world.
Read quote -
I consider personally the election of Barack Hussein Obama to have very great symbolic meaning. A Muslim and a Christian name - so in his name there is a synthesis, although people from time to time want to overlook that, and they do it intentionally.
Read quote -
In the process of the Arab Spring, we have unfortunately seen a development in Syria where the regime has been oppressing its people.
Read quote -
I am aware of the thesis that the United States has long since invested exclusively in stability and this has obviated democratic transformation in the Middle East.
Read quote -
Among leaders in Europe there are those who have prejudices against Turkey, like France and Germany.
Read quote -
Turkey will be in Cyprus forever.
Read quote -
We, as Turkey, call on Europe to respect human rights and democracy.
Read quote -
Attempts by one ethnic group to exercise sovereignty over another are not fair. It doesn't matter if that ethnicity is Kurdish, Turkish, Arabic, Chaldean or whatever.
Read quote -
My visit to the United States has also given me the opportunity to emphasize the objective of establishing close and intensive links between the Turkish and American peoples, scholars and businessmen.
Read quote -
In this country, there is a segregation of Black Turks and White Turks. Your brother Tayyip belongs to the Black Turks.
Read quote -
Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic.
Read quote -
According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.
Read quote -
Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism.
Read quote -
Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East.
Read quote