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“The fact that a woman is attached to her professional life should not prevent her from being a mother.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously.”
“However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.”
“A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization.”
“We of course define all terror organizations as threats, but the PKK is the primary threat.”
“Engaging in actions which are not allowed by law should have certain prices to pay.”
“In the process of the Arab Spring, we have unfortunately seen a development in Syria where the regime has been oppressing its people.”
“A federated structure in Iraq based on ethnicity or religious sects will not be healthy.”
“We are concerned that Germany, which has protected the PKK and DHKP-C for years, has become the backyard of the Gulenist terror organisation.”
“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?”
“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?”
“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.”
“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.”
“The E.U. should want Turkey to be part of it.”
“Satire, whether it be satire or not, everything has to have boundaries.”
“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.”
“Our country and our nation have again only one message to those who attack us - you will not succeed!”
“There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization.”