“We could have deported them but we did not. We’re still hosting them in our country. It is not possible to understand such a stance against a country which displays hospitality,”
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is a Turkish politician who has been the president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as the 25th prime minister from 2003 to 2014 as part of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which he co-founded in 2001. He also served as mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998. Coming from an Islamist background and promoting socially conservative policies, Erdoğan has been Turkey…
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I don’t know right now what sort of decision they will make … but I barely understand why we, as the nation, as well as print and visual media, stand in defence. I personally don’t bother about a defence because we don’t carry a stain or a shadow like genocide.
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2026· 33 entries
“I don’t know right now what sort of decision they will make … but I barely understand why we, as the nation, as well as print and visual media, stand in defence. I personally don’t bother about a defence because we don’t carry a stain or a shadow like genocide.”
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“One does not believe in their sincerity at all. Neither our Arab people nor our Palestinian people should believe him. He is a trader. He plays both sides. When it suits him, he is with Israel, when it suits him, he is with Palestine,”
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“go in one ear and out from the other”
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“Jerusalem is a red line for Muslims”
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“s bombing and blockade of the Gaza Strip in retaliation for Hamas”
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“an ally and a strategic partner, but also a real friend. The cooperation we have is well beyond any mechanism that we have established with other partners.”
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“As everyone now acknowledges, Karabakh is Azerbaijani territory. Imposition of another status [to the region] will never be accepted,”
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“cultivate a favorable relationship with whatever government would take the place of Assad”
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“Mister Peres, you are older than I am. Maybe you are feeling guilty and that is why you are raising your voice. When it comes to killing you know it too well. I remember how you killed the children on beaches...”
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“a disgrace to the justice system”
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“We took a courageous step to resolve chronic issues that constitute an obstacle along Turkey”
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İletişim Başkanlığı: President Erdoğan, Prime Minister Takaichi of Japan talk over phone
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Yetkin Report: Erdoğan’s Messages to Trump: “Stop Israel” and “We Will Not Shy Away from War”
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Turkish Minute: Erdoğan ally Bahçeli seeks rewrite of Turkey’s election laws
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Turkish Minute: [OPINION] Erdoğan’s risky gamble: Could the Mecca Pact pull Turkey into war with Iran?
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Turkish Minute: US political streamer Hasan Piker says Erdoğan’s rise brought ‘negative consequences’ in Turkey
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İletişim Başkanlığı: President Erdoğan, President Trump of the U.S. talk over phone
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Informat.ro: Recep Tayyip Erdogan instó a Donald Trump a continuar los esfuerzos diplomáticos para poner fin a la guerra con Irán.
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سانا: Erdogan, Trump discuss regional and global issues by phone
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Caliber.Az: Trump-Erdoğan call brings regional and global issues into focus
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The Jerusalem Post: Turkish Recep Tayyip Erdogan urges Donald Trump to continue US-Iran peace talks, discusses Gaza war
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Turkish Minute: Erdoğan says EU membership is not a priority for Turkey
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Turkish Minute: [OPINION] From reform to one-man rule: Erdoğan and the AKP at 25
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Informat.ro: Recep Tayyip Erdogan declaró que la adhesión a la UE ya no es una prioridad para Turquía
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Informat.ro: Recep Tayyip Erdogan elogió a Hamas por cumplir con las obligaciones del plan de paz para la Franja de Gaza, criticando al mismo tiempo a Israel por los ataques.
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A News: Mecca defense agreement sends 'important message' to the world: Erdoğan
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Yahoo: Turkey's Erdoğan says EU membership no longer a priority
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Eurasia Review: Erdogan Says Egypt Could Join Turkey-Saudi-Pakistan Defense Pact
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The Jerusalem Post: Netanyahu's Likud puts Zohran Mamdani alongside Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Khamenei as Israel's enemies
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The Guardian: After teargas, protests and legal strife, Turkey has a new opposition party. Is this the man who can defeat Erdoğan? | Kaya Genç
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fact checker rated the claim “Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğans health deteriorating in recent days.” misleading.
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Public attention spiked: 22,278 Wikipedia readers in one day, 8.2× the usual 2,730, with 3 article edits. Editors noted: Restored revision 1362827350 by NesserWiki (talk): Unexplained removal of sourced content and clarification tag
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2025· 5 entries
Doğruluk Payı rated the claim “Bir X kullanıcısı tarafından 28 Eylül 2025’te yapılan bir paylaşımdaki videonun, ABD Başkanı Donal Trump’ın Cumhurbaşkanı Recep Tayyip Erdoğan'ın elini öperek 'Siz bizim büyüğümüzsünüz' dediği anları gösterdiği iddia edildi.” Yanlış.
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fact checker rated the claim “Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan meeting with Jewish rabbis after the Israeli airstrikes in Syria.” misleading.
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Doğruluk Payı rated the claim “Bir X hesabı tarafından 15 Mart 2025 tarihinde paylaşılan videonun, Cumhurbaşkanı Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’ın katıldığı bir televizyon programında izlediği sokak röportajını gösterdiği iddia edildi.” Yanlış.
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Erdoğan oversaw the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and his subsequent disqualification from the upcoming 2028 presidential election, for which he was considered the opposition front-runner, leading to ongoing wi
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“ideal host for possible talks between Russia, Ukraine and the USA,”
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2023· 1 entry
The Quint rated the claim “Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan issued a warning to the USA, telling them to stay out of the Israel-Palestine war.” False.
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2022· 4 entries
fact checker rated the claim “A photo depicts Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh and sitting next to Israeli President Isaac Herzog.” fake.
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YouTube: 218K followers (@UCiHR69jCQX8uoH-B1tX6lzg).
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Saying that international law requires that Russia must return Crimea to Ukraine
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Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin planned for Turkey to become an energy hub for all of Europe through the TurkStream and Blue Stream gas pipelines
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2020· 1 entry
Awarded Ig Nobel Prize (2020).
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2019· 2 entries
Speeches in Kahramanmaraş and Hatay, claiming to have "solved" housing issues for thousands
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The Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a statement condemning what it described as China's "reintroduction of concentration camps in the 21st century" and "a great cause of shame for humanity"
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2018· 5 entries
Teyit rated the claim “The claim that a photo shows Erdoğan and Soros at the same table” True.
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Awarded Order of the Republic (2018).
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Claimed: “Türkiye sadece büyümüyor aynı zamanda bu büyümeyle ortaya çıkan gelirin adil bir şekilde dağılmasını sağlıyor.” — rated Kısmen Doğruluk Payı Vardır by Doğruluk Payı.
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“s Alliance (Turkish: Cumhur İttifakı) on 27 April 2018, with support from the MHP. His main opposition, the Republican People”
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23 tons of mined gold were taken from Venezuela to Istanbul
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2017· 3 entries
Awarded National Order of Madagascar (2017).
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The elected President will be both the head of state and head of government of Turkey, taking over the latter role from the to-be-abolished office of the Prime Minister
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“Make not three, but five children. Because you are the future of Europe. That will be the best response to the injustices against you.”
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2016· 1 entry
Erdoğan told his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko that Turkey would not recognize the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation; calling it "Crimea's occupation"
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2015· 5 entries
Awarded Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (2015).
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Following AKP electoral defeat, the rise of a social democrat, pro-Kurdish rights opposition party, and the minor Ceylanpınar incident, he decided that the peace process was over and supported the revocation of the parli
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Erdoğan made a statement in which he endorsed the old Ottoman term külliye to refer to university campuses rather than the standard Turkish word kampüs
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“Opis: w 2015, gdy turecka prokuratura zatrzymała transport rakiet i amunicji do Syrii oficjalnie opisany jako karma dla zwierząt.”
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Opened a vast mosque on a mountaintop near this village
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2014· 3 entries
Turkey temporarily blocked access to Twitter
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Career landmark: President of Turkey (2014).
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Erdoğan became the country's first directly elected president
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2013· 3 entries
The government of Erdoğan began a peace process between the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Turkish Government, mediated by parliamentarians of the Peoples' Democratic party (HDP)
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Erdoğan visited the Pınarhisar prison again for the first time in fourteen years
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Led to the arrests of Erdoğan's close allies, and incriminated Erdoğan
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2012· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the Shanghai International Studies University (2012).
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Turkey had a lower ratio of public debt to GDP than 21 of 27 members of the European Union and a lower budget deficit to GDP ratio than 23 of them
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The Human Rights and Equality Institution of Turkey and the Ombudsman Institution were established
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2011· 3 entries
Awarded Order "Danaker" (2011).
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Erdoğan's government made legal reforms to return properties of Christian and Jewish minorities which were seized by the Turkish government in the 1930s
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The relationship between the two countries was strained following the outbreak of conflict in Syria
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2010· 3 entries
Awarded King Faisal International Prize in Service to Islam (2010).
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Won Order of the Golden Fleece (2010).
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Five-year credit default swaps for Turkey's sovereign debt were trading at a record low of 1
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2009· 6 entries
Awarded Nishan-e-Pakistan (2009).
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And 2010, when Turkish ports were closed to Cypriot ships
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Prime Minister Erdoğan's government announced a plan to help end the quarter-century-long Turkey–Kurdistan Workers' Party conflict that had cost more than 40,000 lives
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Which caused an economic boom in the regions near the Syrian border
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Erdoğan accused China of "genocide" against the Uyghurs in Xinjiang
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And 2010, when Turkish ports were closed to Cypriot ships as a consequence of the economic isolation of the internationally unrecognized Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and the failure of the EU to end the isolation,
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2008· 1 entry
To return properties confiscated in the past by the state to non-Muslim foundations
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2007· 2 entries
Erdoğan and Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis inaugurated the Greek-Turkish natural gas pipeline giving Caspian gas its first direct Western outlet
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The first time an Israeli leader had addressed the legislature of a predominantly Muslim nation
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2006· 1 entry
Almost double the figure achieved in 2003
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2005· 1 entry
The parliament granted amnesty to students expelled from universities before 2003
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2004· 5 entries
Won Golden Plate Award (2004).
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President Bashar al-Assad arrived in Turkey for the first official visit by a Syrian President in 57 years
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“If the EU really wants to contribute to a solution, it must fulfill the commitments it made back in 2004 and recognize the existence and will of the Turkish Cypriots, as well as making use of the solution proposal put forward in Geneva,”
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The death penalty was abolished for all circumstances
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Textbooks became free of charge and since 2008 every province in Turkey has its own university
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2003· 7 entries
Career landmark: Prime Minister of Turkey (2003–2014).
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That he was of Georgian origin and that his origins were in Batumi, he later denied this
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Was found to have been written using Microsoft Word 2007
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Erdoğan's government pushed through the Labor Act, a comprehensive reform of Turkey's labour laws
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The Turkish government, together with UNICEF, initiated a campaign called "Come on girls, [let's go] to school
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Erdoğan's government embarked on a sweeping reform program of the Turkish healthcare system, called the Health Transformation Program (HTP), to greatly increase the quality of healthcare and protect all citizens from fin
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Career landmark: member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (2003–2014).
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2002· 4 entries
“homosexuals must be legally protected within the framework of their rights and freedoms. From time to time, we do not find the treatment they get on some television screens humane”
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Erdoğan inherited a Turkish economy that was beginning to recover from a recession as a result of reforms implemented by Kemal Derviş
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And became prime minister after winning a by-election in Siirt in 2003
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To 34 billion lira in 2011, the highest share of the national budget given to one ministry
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2001· 1 entry
A definitive split took place: the followers of Necmettin Erbakan founded the Felicity Party (SP) and the reformers founded the Justice and Development Party (AKP) under the leadership of Abdullah Gül and Erdoğan
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1999· 2 entries
And formed the AKP, abandoning openly Islamist policies
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But talks made little progress since 2016
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1998· 1 entry
Was convicted for inciting religious hatred and banned from politics after reciting a poem by Ziya Gökalp that compared mosques to barracks and the faithful to an army
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1994· 34 entries
“There is no difference between killing a baby in its mother's stomach and killing a baby after birth.”
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Career landmark: mayor of Istanbul (1994–1998).
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“Opis: wypowiedź Erdoğana, burmistrza Istambułu, skierowana do urzędniczki miejskiej (1994).”
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“In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.”
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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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“Moja żona wychowała czworo dzieci, piorąc ich pieluchy w rękach. Dzisiejsze matki po prostu zdejmują pieluchę, wyrzucają ją i odpakowują kolejną. Ale mimo upierają się tylko przy jednym lub dwójce dzieci.”
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“Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic.”
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“There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization.”
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“Opis: o równości kobiet i mężczyzn.”
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“There are people who say that "Gül can't be my president". These people don't have good manners for and they should renounce their Turkish citizenship foremost this man will be chosen democratically by the people.”
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“Every instigator or madman, who will dare to raise his hand against the government, let him be sure that the government will chop it off.”
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“Arabowie i Turcy to palce jednej ręki. Bez Arabów świat nie ma sensu.”
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“We are all human beings. (original: Hepimiz insanız)”
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“Opis: podczas wizyty w Prisztinie.”
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“Opis: o uczestnikach masowych protestów w tureckich miastach.”
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“Niemcy, nie macie nic wspólnego z demokracją i powinniście wiedzieć, że wasze obecne działania niczym się nie różnią od okresu nazistowskiego.”
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“Those who do not want to take a side will be eliminated (read as: irrelevant for) from the process.”
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“Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel’s Tomb were not and never will be Jewish sites.”
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“Unia nie powinna się wtrącać w nie swoje sprawy.”
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“In my country there are 170,000 Armenians. Seventy thousand of them are citizens. We tolerate 100,000 more. So, what am I going to do tomorrow? If necessary I will tell the 100,000: OK, time to go back to your country. Why? They are not my citizens. I am not obliged to keep them in my country.”
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“W moim kraju przebywa 170 tys. Ormian. 70 tys. ma (tureckie) obywatelstwo, ale toleruj[e]my jeszcze 100 tys. innych (…). Jeśli okaże się to niezbędne, będziemy zmuszeni odesłać ich do ojczyzny. Skoro nie są moimi współobywatelami (…), nie jestem zobowiązany ich tu trzymać.”
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“I consider abortion to be murder. No-one should have the right to allow this to happen.”
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“There is a trouble called Twitter, the finest lies are here. Nowadays, social media is actually the headache of societies.”
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“Our religion [Islam] has defined a position for women: motherhood. Some people can understand this, while others can’t. You cannot explain this to feminists because they don’t accept the concept of motherhood.”
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“You cannot place a mother breastfeeding her baby on an equal footing with men. You cannot make women work in the same jobs as men do, as in communist regimes. You cannot give them a shovel and tell them to do their work. This is against their delicate nature.”
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“What women need is to be able to be equivalent, rather than equal. Because equality turns the victim into an oppressor and vice versa.”
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“As Muslims, we cannot overcome our difficulties without achieving unity in spite of our differences.”
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“A woman who says 'because I am working I will not be a mother' is actually denying her feminity.”
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“A woman who rejects motherhood, who refrains from being around the house, however successful her working life is, is deficient, is incomplete.”
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“Europe, you don't want us because the majority of our population are Muslim ... We knew it but we tried to show our sincerity.”
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“You cried out when 50,000 refugees were at the Kapikule border... You started asking what you would do if Turkey would open the gates. Look at me — if you go further, those border gates will be open. You should know that.”
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“If Europe continues this way, no European in any part of the world can walk safely on the streets. We, as Turkey, call on Europe to respect human rights and democracy.”
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“We believe that we do not have any problem with any country or institution that cannot be solved through politics, diplomacy, and dialogue,”
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“We have no grudge against the people of Armenia. The problem is with the Armenian administration. Over 100,000 Armenians live in my country,”
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1988· 1 entry
His father, Ahmet Erdoğan, died in 1988 and his mother, Tenzile Erdoğan, died in 2011 at the age of 87.
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1983· 1 entry
Erdoğan followed most of Necmettin Erbakan's followers into the newly founded Welfare Party (RP)
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1981· 1 entry
Studied at Marmara University (1981).
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1976· 1 entry
Erdoğan engaged in politics by joining the National Turkish Student Union, an anti-communist action group
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1965· 1 entry
And the Istanbul İmam Hatip High School, a religious vocational high school, in 1973
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1958· 1 entry
Erdoğan has a brother, Mustafa (b. 1958), and a sister, Vesile (b. 1965).
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1954· 2 entries
Born 1954-02-26.
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Played for Kasımpaşa S.K. (1954).
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1923· 1 entry
And 2002, there had been 6,000 km of dual carriageway roads created
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