We are fully free, not partially, fully free, in everything related to the future of Syria.

[American's government] thinking they are the judge of the world; they're not.

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army - or outside the government and army.

Almost all countries have natural dividing lines, and when ethnic and religious partition occurs in one country, it'll soon happen elsewhere.

I said we don't pin a lot of hopes of changing administrations [in U.S.] because that context has been going on for more than fifty years now, and that's expected. If they want to continue in the same position of the United States creating problems around the world, that's what they have to do: only interfering in the matters of other nations.

Whether [Turkey] is a NATO country or not, it doesn't have the right to invade any other country according to the international law or to any other moral value.