Turkey wants to be treated by the same standards as other countries. If you compare us to some other newly accepted EU members our performance, especially in terms of the economy, is much better.

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

Obviously some states are allowed to have weapons of mass destruction while others are not.

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

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

A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world.

I cannot understand how sensible people still defend Facebook, YouTube and Twitter