Our religion [Islam] has defined a position for women: motherhood. Some people can understand this, while others can’t. You cannot explain this to fe… - Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

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

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

Nonetheless, Turkey refused to believe that the shortsighted and occasionally reckless attitudes of certain member states reflected the position of NATO as a whole. Quite the contrary, we stressed NATO’s importance and called on member states to take necessary steps, that included updating NATO’s missions to cover emerging threats and making the organisation more relevant for new geopolitical and global challenges. That call was in line with our nation’s response to the international system’s deepening instability, too.