Tayyip Erdoğan is megalomaniac President, he is not stable. He lives during the Ottoman era, he doesn't live in the current time. He's out of touch with the reality.

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

If you don't win and the terrorists win, Syria wouldn't exist anymore.

I don't believe the United States will be ready to join Russia in fighting terrorists in Syria.

Opposition is different from terrorism. Opposition is a political movement.

When you talk about Al-Qaeda it doesn't matter if he's Syrian or American or from Europe or from Asia or Africa.

We learned that lesson very well, especially in the eighties, that terrorists cannot be used as a political card, you cannot put it in your pocket, because it's like a scorpion; it will bite you someday.