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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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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.

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

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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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Those who claim we buy oil from Daesh are obliged to prove it. If not, you are slanderer.

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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.

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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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Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East.

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Russia and Iran back Assad, but are they fighting Daesh? The answer is 'no.'

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We have extradited terrorists to the United States in the past. And we expect the same thing to be done by the United States.

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We are concerned that Germany, which has protected the PKK and DHKP-C for years, has become the backyard of the Gulenist terror organisation.

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

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Satire, whether it be satire or not, everything has to have boundaries.

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The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.

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

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The Kurdish problem is not only the problem of one part of my nation: it is a problem of every one of us, including myself.

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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.

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The fact that a woman is attached to her professional life should not prevent her from being a mother.

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Engaging in actions which are not allowed by law should have certain prices to pay.

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Once the people of Iraq know when the U.S. troops will leave, their confidence in the U.S. will increase.

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We of course define all terror organizations as threats, but the PKK is the primary threat.

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If we believe in a democratic system, we have to accept the will of the people.

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Before anything else, I'm a Muslim. As a Muslim, I try to comply with the requirements of my religion. I have a responsibility to God, who created me, and I try to fulfill that responsibility. But I try now very much to keep this away from my political life, to keep it private.

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Strong families lead to strong nations.

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The E.U. should want Turkey to be part of it.

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I cannot deceive my people.

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Germany has become an important haven for terrorists.

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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.

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Russia is not engaged in a fight against Daesh in Syria. On the contrary, they are actually targeting moderate opposition.

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Islamophobia emerged from the Western countries, and this is a challenge that we all together need to surmount.

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