Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Quotes

What women need is to be able to be equivalent, rather than equal. Because equality turns the victim into an oppressor and vice versa.

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.

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.

There is a trouble called Twitter, the finest lies are here. Nowadays, social media is actually the headache of societies.

I consider abortion to be murder. No-one should have the right to allow this to happen.

There is no difference between killing a baby in its mother's stomach and killing a baby after birth.

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.

Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel’s Tomb were not and never will be Jewish sites.

Those who do not want to take a side will be eliminated (read as: irrelevant for) from the process.

...it's not possible for a Muslim to commit genocide

There is but one alternative for Turkey. Either African barbarism, under Arabian direction, will burst around its head like an avalanche, or else it must re-establish strong leadership, thus putting twenty million heroes between itself and Africa and gaining a breathing spell for the accomplishment of its social regeneration.

Mr. Peres, you are older than I am. And your voice is genuinely loud. I know that it is because you are, in fact, in a psychology of feeling guilty, thus you better know that I will not sound that loud. And when killing is the case, you know how to kill very well. I know how you killed the children on the beaches, I know how you shot them. Two ex-PMs of your country once told me important things. You have had such prime ministers who said, "When I enter Palestine on a tank, I feel happy — in a different way." You have had PMs who said to me "I feel happy when I am on a tank while entering Palestine." And you give me those numbers. I would release their names, in case some of you might be curious of. I also condemn those who acclaim this cruelty, because I think it is a crime against humanity as well.

We are all human beings. (original: Hepimiz insanız)

These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.

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.