Country Quote by Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

In the Arab mindset, democratization may not be an exclusively negative term. But it's associated closely with American policies and the occupation of Iraq.

— Gilles Kepel

The Americans view the democratization of the Middle East as the route to peace.

— Gilles Kepel

I think that the Middle East is the largest piece of unfinished business that we all have. I happen to believe in the democratization…

— Madeleine Albright

Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

America's objective in the Middle East is to create democracy in the same way that my goal on a first date to feed women.

— Dov Davidoff

The U.S. alleges it wants to democratize [the Middle East] whilst it seeks to reverse election results not legally or through polls, but by…

— Khaled Mashal

A democracy in the Middle East must be more than a democracy in name only - it must live out its principles.

— Kay Granger

Democracy isn't just for people in the Middle East, but Britons, too.

— Heather Brooke