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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. "
View
Culture
Product
" A country without a strong leader will go down. "
Down
Will
Strong
" 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. "
Positive
Community
Influence
" All terror groups are bad, and we shall fight them all. "
Them
Terror
Shall
" A political party cannot have a religion. Only individuals can. Otherwise, you'd be exploiting religion, and religion is so supreme that it cannot be exploited or taken advantage of. "
Party
You
Religion
" 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. "
Ethnicity
Group
Fair
" A woman who abstains from motherhood saying 'I am working' means she is in fact rejecting motherhood. "
Am
Woman
Saying
" 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. "
Me
God
Responsibility
" 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. "
People
Building
World
" Democracy is like a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off. "
Democracy
Like
Your
" 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. "
Accept
Country
Goal
" Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism. "
Like
World
Participation
" Every country needs a strong leader in order to progress. "
Country
Strong
Progress
" Family planning, birth control, no Muslim family can practice such an understanding. "
Control
Practice
Planning
" 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. "
Mountain
Leader
People
" 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. "
Islam
Live
Person
" Islamophobia emerged from the Western countries, and this is a challenge that we all together need to surmount. "
Need
Challenge
Countries
" Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that democracy in that region is neither possible nor even desirable. "
Perspective
Culture
Democracy
" So far, I have not come to any of the positions that I have filled through wanting to be there. I was sought - people wanted me to come to those posts. I am talking about all my positions: mayor of Istanbul, chairman of the party, prime minister. "
Party
People
Talking
" The fact that a woman is attached to her professional life should not prevent her from being a mother. "
Professional
Woman
Mother
" The members of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria are also part of the Syrian people, and they have the right to exercise their democratic rights. "
Exercise
Right
Brotherhood
" 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. "
Democracy
Meet
Words
" 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. "
Difference
Gun
Hand
" Those who stand on our side in the fight against terrorism are our friend. Those on the opposite side are our enemy. "
Friend
Stand
Terrorism
" We have to fight all terrorist groups, and not arm one to fight another. "
Terrorist
Groups
Fight
" Your targets can only be realized on the basis of dreams. "
Targets
Realized
Dreams
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