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. Recep Tayyip Erdogan Read Quote
If everyone can say, looking at Obama, that is he is one of us, is that not befitting for the leading country in the world? Recep Tayyip Erdogan 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. Recep Tayyip Erdogan Read Quote
Once the people of Iraq know when the U.S. troops will leave, their confidence in the U.S. will increase. Recep Tayyip Erdogan Read Quote
Russia and Iran back Assad, but are they fighting Daesh? The answer is ‘no.’ Recep Tayyip Erdogan Read Quote
We have never done anything to stop freedom of expression or freedom of press. Recep Tayyip Erdogan Read Quote
Satire, whether it be satire or not, everything has to have boundaries. Recep Tayyip Erdogan Read Quote
A simple caricature, a simple sketch – that’s fine. There’s nothing wrong with that. But if you draw up a caricature… if you associate that subject with the things you’re not supposed to, then, of course, you can’t expect that to be acceptable. Recep Tayyip Erdogan Read Quote
