Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic. - Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

We believe that we do not have any problem with any country or institution that cannot be solved through politics, diplomacy, and dialogue,

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.

If the EU really wants to contribute to a solution, it must fulfill the commitments it made back in 2004 and recognize the existence and will of the Turkish Cypriots, as well as making use of the solution proposal put forward in Geneva,