This (presidential) system will not bear any resemblance to dictatorships under the same name in Africa and Asia, (It) will be unique to Turkey, it will be like a bee making honey, taking something from every flower and giving us a taste of a truly different honey.

There is an attempt to tarnish Turkey by using press freedom when it is in fact measures taken against terrorism, i dispute this. Nowhere in Europe or in other countries is there a media that is as free as the press in Turkey.

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

The knife in the hand of a murderer kills, but if you give it to a doctor he will heal with it.

The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marathon of political, economic and human development. For that, there is a tendency to blame others as the primary cause

In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.

If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute [their people] do not remain standing.