Arab spring Quote by Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“In the process of the Arab Spring, we have unfortunately seen a development in Syria where the regime has been oppressing its people.” quote by Recep Tayyip Erdogan — Download Open image

“In the process of the Arab Spring, we have unfortunately seen a development in Syria where the regime has been oppressing its people.”

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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.

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Turkey will be in Cyprus forever.

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During the Gezi protests and PKK terror campaigns, the unity and solidarity of the Turkish nation were attacked.

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The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.

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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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A federated structure in Iraq based on ethnicity or religious sects will not be healthy.

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Jerusalem is holy to three religions. You have to respect that.

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One of the themes of 'The Longest War,' my book, which came out before the Arab spring happened, was how al-Qaida and bin Laden was losing the war of ideas in the Muslim world, not because the United States was winning them, but because al-Qaida was simply losing them.

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I think Martin Luther King would always keep track of collective insurgencies among poor and working people. He was concerned about the treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union, for example. He would have closely followed the Arab Spring. And certainly he would be very critical of the massive surveillance state that has emerged in America in the last five…

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