Related
There is a heated debate in Turkey these days over whether the government of Prime Minister Recep Ta... MUSTAFA AKYOL
The Turkish government will never tolerate the creation of a Kurdish state. PETER BERGEN Family planning, birth control, no Muslim family can practice such an understanding.
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparen...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the M...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attac...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this co...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN I am one of the first political leaders officially declaring that anti-Semitism is a crime. I expect...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of ...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Turkey will be in Cyprus forever.
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN I regard the endorsement of both the objective and a method - which can differ from one country to a...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effecti...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratiza...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on ...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in pr...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consen...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN A political party cannot have a religion. Only individuals can. Otherwise, you'd be exploiting r...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peo...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, susp...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized.
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN So far, I have not come to any of the positions that I have filled through wanting to be there. I wa...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Attempts by one ethnic group to exercise sovereignty over another are not fair. It doesn't matte...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN There is no Kurdish problem.
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN The Kurdish problem is not only the problem of one part of my nation: it is a problem of every one o...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marath...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN The foundations of democratic transition should be laid in accordance with a sincere and committed s...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Islam is a religion. It is not an ideology. For a Muslim, there is no such thing as to be against mo...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN We have taken another giant step in our march toward Europe, ... The journey will be fraught with di...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN We passed the most important phase on the way to reaching our 40-year goal and the founding principl...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN What did this person become famous for? ... We have programs at the moment that follow a trend that ...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN If everybody knows what his or her duty is then we will be more beneficial to our country. Everyone ...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN My wish is this -- the world is using resources for armaments, they should also put aside resources ...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN E.U. membership is the means of realizing Turkey's claim of being a democratic, liberal, just and pr...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN That resolution is not binding. It does not matter whether they took such a decision or not. We will...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN I said to (President) Bush if there is time, then a referendum can be carried out,
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN It's ridiculous to call this bargaining for dollars. The political and military dimensions are far m...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Turkey has taken a giant step forward on its historic march.
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN We will do whatever is possible to assist you in this crisis,
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Bird flu is totally under control, ... The outbreak ... occurred in one area and has been contained....
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN We know of the nature of the regime in Syria. We constantly try to inspire them toward more democrac...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN end up a Christian club.
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN [Turkey seized on the German result to call on its opponents in Europe to] reconsider ... It was an ...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Time to time I get together with the rabbis, with religious leaders, leaders of congregations, and I...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN A woman who abstains from motherhood saying 'I am working' means she is in fact rejecting mo...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democra...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Islamophobia emerged from the Western countries, and this is a challenge that we all together need t...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Your targets can only be realized on the basis of dreams.
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Turkey is a sovereign state, just like the U.S. We might go to different directions, in terms of our...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN We have a very significant number of Jewish citizens, and they have always been safe and secure wher...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Democracy is like a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off.
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN I am aware of the thesis that the United States has long since invested exclusively in stability and...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a po...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN In this country, there is a segregation of Black Turks and White Turks. Your brother Tayyip belongs ...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN During the Gezi protests and PKK terror campaigns, the unity and solidarity of the Turkish nation we...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN If the EU is not a Christian club, this has to be proven,
TAYYIP ERDOGAN We are saddened by the statements of the French prime minister and of President (Jacques) Chirac.
TAYYIP ERDOGAN It's ridiculous to call this bargaining for dollars. The political and military dimensions are far m...
TAYYIP ERDOGAN At this stage it is impossible for us to accept anything outside this.
TAYYIP ERDOGAN If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom of thought,
TAYYIP ERDOGAN They are working on it, ... We don't know the exact reasons yet, they are searching [for] any techni...
TAYYIP ERDOGAN It was an auspicious result for the EU process,
TAYYIP ERDOGAN
By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Ko... NOAM CHOMSKY I'll accuse the prosecutor of violating human rights in Turkey, of neglecting and misusing his posit...
BASKIN ORAN Origins of a Genius
ALAN BROWN We have always understood the Kurdish people's ambitions,
AMR MUSSA
every man has a map in his heart of his own country and that the heart will never allow you to forge... ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH seriously endangered the...indivisible unity of the Turkish republic.
ABDULLAH OCALAN Our movement is the liberation movement of the Turkish people,
ABDULLAH OCALAN Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence
HECTOR AVALOS It was like a Turkish prison.
CHARLES HALL Creation myths are not about the origins of the world at all, but about the origins of patriarchy wh...
JANE CAPUTI
Turkish deniers are becoming the equivalent--socially, culturally--of Holocaust deniers. SAMANTHA POWER Turkish people have a right to choose who will be their leaders and we... look forward to working wi...
MARC GROSSMAN
Muhammad Iffat has an inflexible, Turkish mentality but a heart of gold. NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I think we're scared of getting thrown into a Turkish prison, honestly.
STEVE BAYS Whenever a Kurd wants to measure the depth of some foreign leader's commitment to Kurdish autono...
TIMOTHY NOAH
I've a rare Turkish swimming cat. ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
He knew Muhammad Iffat was of Turkish descent and stubborn as a mule. NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Chance and necessity do not explain the origins of life.
STEPHEN MEYER
Pursued by our origins... we all are. EMILE M. CIORAN Our demand is democracywe accept and welcome [American] support. But only in accordance with the int...
AKIF ZAGROS This is definitely an embarrassment for the Turkish Government
JANE ARRAF Currently the international and regional situation does not permit for the foundation of an independ...
JALAL TALABANI
Some hold translations not unlike to be / The wrong side of a Turkish tapestry. JAMES HOWELL Our demand is democracywe accept and welcome [American] support. But only in accordance with the i...
AKIF ZAGROS
The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. KURDISH PROVERB
Do not throw the arrow which will return against you. KURDISH PROVERB
Search yourself, and you will find Allah KURDISH PROVERB The Muslim Brotherhood is much more hardline than Turkish Islamists.
RICHARD ENGEL
His skin’s so tanned he could be Turkish or something DAVID MITCHELL It has opened a window into the very origins of Maya civilization.
WILLIAM SATURNO
Nobody can give up rain and nobody can give up love because the former makes this life possible and ... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Accusations of genocide are a very sensitive issue and we are attempting to deal with it as such. Th...
DONALD ANDERSON
Turkish cuisine is, to my mind, one of the most exciting and accomplished in the world. YOTAM OTTOLENGHI
