We, as Turkey, call on Europe to respect human rights and democracy.
— Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Turkey will be in Cyprus forever.
If you're the leader, you have to communicate the message of immortality to your people. Because I believe if a leader hides behind a rock, then the people will hide behind a mountain.
Engaging in actions which are not allowed by law should have certain prices to pay.
Russia and Iran back Assad, but are they fighting Daesh? The answer is 'no.'
The E.U. should want Turkey to be part of it.
Russia is not engaged in a fight against Daesh in Syria. On the contrary, they are actually targeting moderate opposition.
Your targets can only be realized on the basis of dreams.
The PKK is the number one threat in terms of terror in our country.
Jerusalem is holy to three religions. You have to respect that.
I have already said that I find the coalition air strikes to be insufficient. A ground intervention will be necessary to overcome Daesh.
During the Gezi protests and PKK terror campaigns, the unity and solidarity of the Turkish nation were attacked.
I'm calling on the United States: what kind of strategic partners are we, that you can still host someone whose extradition I have asked for?
Those who claim we buy oil from Daesh are obliged to prove it. If not, you are slanderer.
Those who stand on our side in the fight against terrorism are our friend. Those on the opposite side are our enemy.
Nazism is still widespread in the West.
Whatever our Lord says, whatever our beloved Prophet says, we shall follow that path.
Why shouldn't Turkey be in the Shanghai Five?
I cannot deceive my people.
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.
We have never done anything to stop freedom of expression or freedom of press.
Once the people of Iraq know when the U.S. troops will leave, their confidence in the U.S. will increase.
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.
Islam is a religion. It is not an ideology. For a Muslim, there is no such thing as to be against modernity. Why should a Muslim not be a modern person? I, as a Muslim, fulfill all the requirements of my religion, and I live in a democratic, social state.
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.
A country without a strong leader will go down.
Among leaders in Europe there are those who have prejudices against Turkey, like France and Germany.
You cannot defend a terrorist group just because they are fighting Daesh.
If the E.U. is going to make Turkey a full member, we are ready.
Germany has become an important haven for terrorists.
There is no difference, where aims are concerned, between a terrorist with a gun and bomb in his hand and a terrorist who has dollars, euros, and interest rates.
Strong families lead to strong nations.
A woman who abstains from motherhood saying 'I am working' means she is in fact rejecting motherhood.
I am one of the first political leaders officially declaring that anti-Semitism is a crime. I expect an official declaration that Islamophobia is a crime against humanity as well.
Turkey must feel at ease. It mustn't say, 'For me, it's the European Union at all costs.' That's my view.
We have extradited terrorists to the United States in the past. And we expect the same thing to be done by the United States.
Satire, whether it be satire or not, everything has to have boundaries.
We have to fight all terrorist groups, and not arm one to fight another.
If the European Union wants to be an address where civilizations meet, it must take Turkey in.
A federated structure in Iraq based on ethnicity or religious sects will not be healthy.
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?
We of course define all terror organizations as threats, but the PKK is the primary threat.
Every country needs a strong leader in order to progress.
Being in the European Union, we would be building bridges between the 1.5 bn people of Muslim world to the non-Muslim world. They have to see this. If they ignore it, it brings weakness to the E.U.
All terror groups are bad, and we shall fight them all.
Our country and our nation have again only one message to those who attack us - you will not succeed!
We are concerned that Germany, which has protected the PKK and DHKP-C for years, has become the backyard of the Gulenist terror organisation.
My nation wants the death penalty. That is the decision of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
The fact that a woman is attached to her professional life should not prevent her from being a mother.
Family planning, birth control, no Muslim family can practice such an understanding.
