A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization.

If the people allow something to happen, it's the right thing.

Is Europe a home for an alliance of civilizations or is it a Christian club? If the former is true, then Turkey should be part of it.

We are against the majority tyrannizing the minority. But we are definitely against the minority tyrannizing the majority.

Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered.

The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have created the perception in the region that democracy is a distant concept; this perception can be addressed

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.