Recep Tayyip Erdoğan quotes

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is a Turkish politician serving as the President of Turkey. His leadership has significantly shaped the country’s recent political and economic developments. He has remained a central and influential figure in Turkish and international politics. Here are 63 of his quotes:

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

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Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic.

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In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.

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There are people who say that "Gül can't be my president". These people don't have good manners for and they should renounce their Turkish citizenship foremost this man will be chosen democratically by the people.

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Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration.

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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.

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Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb were not and never will be Jewish sites.

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There is a trouble called Twitter, the finest lies are here. Nowadays, social media is actually the headache of societies.

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Our religion [Islam] has defined a position for women: motherhood. Some people can understand this, while others can't. You cannot explain this to feminists because they don't accept the concept of motherhood.

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There was a young fellow from Ankara Who was a terrific wankerer Till he sowed his wild oats With the help of a goat But he didn't even stop to thankera.

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You cried out when 50,000 refugees were at the Kapikule border... You started asking what you would do if Turkey would open the gates. Look at me - if you go further, those border gates will be open. You should know that.

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There is no difference between killing a baby in its mother's stomach and killing a baby after birth.

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A woman who says 'because I am working I will not be a mother' is actually denying her feminity.

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How would the world respond if a European prime minister called for the mass deportation of all Turks? Yet Erdogan's xenophobic demagoguery attracted precisely no condemnation from Washington or Brussels. He probably overestimated the number of "tolerated" economic refugees from neighboring and former Soviet Armenia, but is it not interesting that he keeps a count in his head? And a count of the tiny number of surviving Turkish Armenians as well? The outburst strengthens the already strong case for considering Erdogan to be somewhat personally unhinged.

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It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attacking their own people, shooting at them, using tanks and other forms of heavy weaponry.

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I am a person who is inclined to define relations between individuals based on principles.

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A woman who rejects motherhood, who refrains from being around the house, however successful her working life is, is deficient, is incomplete.

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There is but one alternative for Turkey. Either African barbarism, under Arabian direction, will burst around its head like an avalanche, or else it must re-establish strong leadership, thus putting twenty million heroes between itself and Africa and gaining a breathing spell for the accomplishment of its social regeneration.

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Turkey's president is blackmailing the United States by threatening to curb his country's support for the international coalition against the Islamic State. His goal: to ensure my extradition, despite a lack of credible evidence and virtually no prospect for a fair trial. The temptation to give Mr. Erdogan whatever he wants is understandable. But the United States must resist it.

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Every instigator or madman, who will dare to raise his hand against the government, let him be sure that the government will chop it off.

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If Europe continues this way, no European in any part of the world can walk safely on the streets. We, as Turkey, call on Europe to respect human rights and democracy.

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These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that's it.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan