152 Quotes by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

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.

We're really willing to see more and more U.S. entrepreneurs conducting investments in Turkey. I'm optimistic for the future.

We have a very significant number of Jewish citizens, and they have always been safe and secure where they are in Turkey.

Time to time I get together with the rabbis, with religious leaders, leaders of congregations, and I talk to them, and wherever a need arises, we do everything we can to meet those needs.

My nation wants the death penalty. That is the decision of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.

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

Nazism is still widespread in the West.

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

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