Recep Tayyip Erdogan Quotes About Country

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• Germany and Turkey are two countries that need each other. As political leaders we will leave our offices one day, but our people will remain and have to get along with each other. So we shouldn’t give them negative messages.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Country, Turkeys, Two

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marathon of political, economic and human development. For that, there is a tendency to blame others as the primary cause

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Country, Political, Middle East

• I don't want to use the term "nuclear weapons" because those people in Iran who have authority say they are not building nuclear weapons. I make an appeal to the countries who do have nuclear weapons. They don't consider them a nuclear threat. But let's say a country that doesn't have nuclear weapons gets involved in building them, then they are told by those that already have nuclear weapons that they oppose [such a development]. Where is the justice in that?

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Country, Iran, People

  "Bashar Is Politically Dead". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.slate.com. September 20, 2012.

• I am against nuclear weapons, regardless of whether they are in the hands of Iran or Israel or any Western country. But obviously some states are allowed to have weapons of mass destruction while others are not.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Country, Mass Destruction, Israel

• Turkey wants to be treated by the same standards as other countries. If you compare us to some other newly accepted EU members our performance, especially in terms of the economy, is much better.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Country, Turkeys, Want

• 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.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Country, Goal, Progress

• 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

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Country, Party, Middle East

• There is an attempt to tarnish Turkey by using press freedom when it is in fact measures taken against terrorism, i dispute this. Nowhere in Europe or in other countries is there a media that is as free as the press in Turkey.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Country, Freedom, Taken

  "Dutch reporter held on terrorism charges in Turkey", www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2015.

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