However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

Forsake Alcohol, eat grapes instead!

We will not leave this nation at the mercy of YouTube and Facebook.

I am a person who is inclined to define relations between individuals based on principles.

The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey

Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism.

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.