Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Erdogan. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Erdogan Quotes And Sayings by 89 Authors including Anthony Weiner,Sergei Lavrov,Naguib Mahfouz,Jeffrey Archer,Jean-Francois Cope for you to enjoy and share.
We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that's least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things.
I can only say it is not for us to decide who should lead Syria. It is for the Syrians to decide.
Muhammad Iffat has an inflexible, Turkish mentality but a heart of gold.
Who Saddam Hussein kills, dies.
I have a thought for Nicolas Sarkozy, you know my loyalty on his account, but I profess it too for Jacques Chirac.
He who loves a dictator is much more dangerous than the dictator himself.
I think [Bashar] Assad is a bad guy, a very bad guy, all right?
[Mikhail] Saakashvili will use all legal and illegal means possible to remain in power. People are being threatened to prevent them from collaborating with the opposition. At the same time, he is terrorizing the business world, which prevents the opposition from gaining any funding.
Bashar Assad has said many things. We will see in the near term whether he is serious about a political process.
Without Ataturk's vision, without his ambition and energy, without his astonishing boldness in sweeping away traditions accumulated over centuries, today's Turkey would not exist, and the world would be much poorer.
I don't understand this thing about [Bashar] Assad. He has to go. Assad is aligned with Iran and Russia. The one thing we want to prevent is we want to prevent Iran being able to extend a Shia crescent all across the Middle East. Assad has got to go.
I'm afraid Putin will kill me. I believe that he was the one who unleashed the war in Ukraine. I couldn't dislike him more.
Saddam Hussein ... I believe is involved with this World Trade Center and Pentagon bombing. I believe that you're going to find out that money from Iraq flowed in and helped this happen.
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people and their emotions closer to my readers, not explain Turkish politics.
Dictators and tyrants are the ones who lead their people over a cliff.
A small group of people, they raise the price of oil and the whole world will suffer from this.
You wouldn't know him if I told you the name. HIPPIAS: But I know right now he's an ignoramus.
I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.
I believe that the majority of Egyptian people know who is Hosni Mubarak and it pains me what has been expressed by some people from my own country.
Turkey's true master is the peasant.
The mighty Caliph of Khorasan. The King of Kings. Her beautiful monster.
Mahmoud Abbas is a puppet.
I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.
Who's running things?
Dictator is always stupid
No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.
You, the sons and daughters, the future of Turkiye, even under such circumstances and conditions, your duty is to save the Turkish independence and the Republic, you will find the power you need in the noble blood in your veins.
With people's revolutionary rage, the king will be ousted and a democratic state, Islamic Republic, will be established.
There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle ... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.
Egypt has a presidential system. The president runs the state. Who the president is matters profoundly.
Syria is lucky to have Bashar al-Assad as her President.
For peace and brotherhood, I am ready to serve the Turkish state, and I believe that for this end I must remain alive.
...whose number one rule in life is: ignore all the ordinary people.
Politics in Turkey are taken more seriously than they are at home. It was only quite recently that they executed a Prime Minister. We dream of it, but they act.
Barack Obama, foreign policy wizard. I just have to laugh.
I would not presume from this distance, nor would America presume to say who should be the leader of the Iraqi nation.
Part of the problem that we have currently in the Middle East is that[Bashar] Assad has hung on to power with the very strong support of Russia and Iran and with the proxy of Hezbollah being there basically fighting his battles.
In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
President Obama is now losing to 'Republican Nominee' in polls - no name needed.
There is much to justify Turkey's reverence for Ataturk. He is the force that allowed Turkey to rise from the ashes of defeat and emerge as a vibrant new nation.
A sad figure (Bush) ' not too well educated, who doesn't get out of America much. He's leading the country towards Fascism.
Does anyone believe that Kofi Annan scares Bashar Assad?
You deserve whoever governs you ... Everyone is responsible for the actions of their leaders.
Bashar Assad is one of the main reasons why ISIS even exists to begin with. Assad is a puppet of Iran.
I think that our society will not allow anyone to establish a dictatorship again in the future. [Mikhail] Saakashvili will fail.
King Abdullah has died. A divisive figure in the Middle East. The sad irony is that the USA preached democracy in the face of absolute rule.
The single despot stands out in the face of all men, and says: I am the State: My will is law: I am your master: I take the responsibility of my acts: The only arbiter I acknowledge is the sword: If any one denies my right, let him try conclusions with me.
Bear in mind how valuable a secular Turkey is for the world.
With two civil wars, an al-Qaida presence and 40% unemployment, what else is President Saleh waiting for? He should leave office now.
And it's significant that he has been using the, you know, language of betrayal in his rhetoric about Turkey. He called the shoot down a treacherous stab in the back by an accomplice of the terrorists. And that suggests that there could still be some harsh revenge in store for Turkey.
The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.
Obviously, Turkey is not a typical authoritarian regime, and obviously it's very important that there are free elections. But it's also obvious that this is not a liberal, mature democracy. This is why I call Turkey a wobbly democracy. At any time, it can tip over and fall down.
If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.
The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction. Let us accept the choice of the people. Let us not pick and choose who we would like to rule their future.
In Syria, if [Bashar al-] Assad had just been a statesman and handed over the reigns in time, Syria would not be heading down the nightmare that it is today.
The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.
Please give reason. Raised taxes; marching us off to war again; approved more NSA snooping. WHO ARE THEY?!
I invite President Assad to come to Jerusalem and to speak with me, with our parliament, with whomever he wants to speak in Israel and in the territories among the Palestinians.
Foreign journalists writing about Turkey like to focus on the most fundamental divide in Turkish society: the rift between religious conservatives and secularists.
Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.
What country is stabler than Iran? Where else in the world would an assassinated prime minister be so quickly replaced?
Don't say his name. I don't want him in here. I will cut him out.
I would like the refugee crisis to become a new beginning in the Turkish-European relationship. But it would be very problematic if, during this process, human rights were forgotten. Democracy needs to be the priority.
Coach Genghis rather
I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution.
Eliakim, Eliakim the father of Azor,
If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him.
Nobody knows how long the arrests wil go on and who else will be taken. He feels even he does not know, and he is in charge of it.
The King! I thought him enough of a philosopher to realize that there is no such thing as murder in politics. You know as well as I do, my dear boy, that in politics there are no people, only ideas; no feelings, only interests. In politics, you don't kill a man, you remove an obstacle, that's all.
Turkey is going through an incredible economic, political and social transformation. What is most important is that Turkey has been the owner of this transformation. Ownership has been the key to success.
Words are heavy in Turkey, and every writer, every poet and every journalist knows that, because of a word, because of a sentence, because of a tweet or even a retweet, you can be sued, you can be demonized by the media and you can even land in prison.
I am sympathetic to the fact that Turkey is doing everything it can to prevent the civil war in Syria from spilling over into its own country.
Assad has to be removed, and then you have to actually put someone in that is a qualified leader that can start to build some trust in that area.
The job of dictator is now a high-risk job.
The billionaire who sits on his money and doesn't do anything for the common good - I'm not interested in that person.
Hassan Harbish. Sunni Muslim. Not a terrorist.
Lindsey Lee Wells. Methodist. Me, neither.
Istanbul ... the constant beating of the wave of the East against the rock of the West ...
Ivan Ivanyches,' sighed the
Pontius Pilate! God will not let you clean your hands of this!
I would support whoever the people have chosen. We have to abandon the thinking that there is a bunch of politically elite people who know what is best, let the people determine for themselves who is best.
Saddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression.
Jesus Christ, shepherd of Judea.
There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.
I should see an enemy of my country in any one who would change by force that which has been established by law.
hold out your right hand, palm up. Imagine a 2-inch-tall version of yourself in a military uniform, with a whip in one hand and a gun in the other, stomping around in your palm, shrieking deeply personal insults and commanding you to lose weight. This is the Dictator.
Angela Merkel tries to make a career as a Bush's Suppository.
Mike Dukakis, you know, he can't get a job mowing lawns.
I have had it up to here with the prosecutions, the government's attitude, the judiciary, the media's stance and the majority of Turks who view the Kurdish people's justified cause through a nationalist lens.
Al-Maliki is pushing my country to reach a turning point with deeply sectarian dimension.
I've changed my mind, even against Omar al-Bashir. Whether he has to be charged or not, the Sudanese shall decide or the Africans.
Who can guarantee that he [Alexander Milinkevich, a Belarussian opposition presidential candidate] is the most promising candidate capable of competing with the incumbent president?
Turkey is immersed in a profound social and political conflict between secularists, who have been in power since the republic was founded, and an insurgent Islamic-based movement that seeks to increase the role of religion in public life.
The salvation of the country requires the elimination of the Armenians
I am sometimes accused of being a dictator because I provoked the extraordinary elections by nominating the interim government. Can you imagine any dictator who provokes free elections in his own country?
Bush is the face on the can. But who canned that soup?
The hideous god of war.
There is only one thing I can say about the Shah- he knows how to draw a crowd.
For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
No Muslim country has ever done as much as Turkey to make itself over in the image of a European nation-state; the country's westernised elite brutally imposed secularism, among other things, on its devout population of peasants.