Recep Tayyip Erdogan Quotes

• Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered.

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  Topics in Country, Progress

• 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.

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  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Domain, Politician

• A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peoples of Palestine and Israel, as well as on the region and the international community.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Palestine, Israel

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Democratization

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Participation, Integration, Muslim

• A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Environmental, Consensus

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

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  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Islamic, Culture

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Unconditionally, Israel

• I regard the endorsement of both the objective and a method – which can differ from one country to another- of democratization by the parties in the region as a basic requisite of democratization in the Middle East.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Democratization, Endorse

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stability, Transformation

• I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won’t be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Follower, Recently

• However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

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  Topics in Democracy

• I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously.

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  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Promotion

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

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  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Participant

• Invariably, also a Palestinian state should live side by side with Israel within recognized and secure borders and the security and prosperity of the Palestinian people must be guaranteed.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Palestine, Prosperity

• In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime.

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  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Consensus

• 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.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Topics in Opportunity

• It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Transformation, Establish, Consensus

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Confidently, Participate

Recep Tayyip Erdogan (33)

Birth:	26th February, 1954
Nationality:	Turkish
Profession:	Prime Minister

About

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been Prime Minister of Turkey since 2003 and is chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party, which holds a majority of the seats in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Erdoğan served as Mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998. He graduated in 1981 from Marmara University's Faculty of Economics and Commercial Sciences. Erdoğan was also a semi- Professional footballer from 1969 to 1982.

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