Germany and Turkey are two countries that need each other. As political leaders we will leave our offices one day, but our people will remain and have to get along with each other. So we shouldn’t give them negative messages.

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

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

Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration.

It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attacking their own people, shooting at them, using tanks and other forms of heavy weaponry.

It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.

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