The best Quotes by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

You mention "Tayfun" and the Greek becomes nervous.

December 2022, on Turkish claims on Greek islands

I can't say we had a good start with Mr. Biden.

September 2021

To say that the people are the sovereignty of the state is a big lie. Only Allah can be the sovereign.

We will never declare a ceasefire. We are not worried about any sanctions.

(as President of Turkey) - about war in North-Syria

Turkey 2019 Syria

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

Islam

There is a trouble called Twitter, the finest lies are here. Nowadays, social media is actually the headache of societies.

June 2, 2013

X / Twitter Social Media

Every country needs a strong leader in order to progress.

Turkey

I consider abortion to be murder. No-one should have the right to allow this to happen.

June 1, 2012

Abortion

A woman who rejects motherhood, who refrains from being around the house, however successful her working life is, is deficient, is incomplete.

(as President of Turkey) - Al Jazeera (6. Juni 2016)

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I am very, very proud I am also Turkish and both of my parents are from Turkey. I was born in Germany and grew up there. By playing football, I learned my different cultures, and that is an advantage if you grow up as a person. You get a different view on certain things. I am very, very thankful I was able to pick the best from many cultures.

Mesut Özil

Turkey

Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Turkey - and that's practically the same thing.

Turkey

No one is above the law, everybody ought to be held accountable.

Pete Buttigieg

Law 2019

It is inevitable that people around the world - including from America and China - will have different viewpoints over different issues. It is not the role of the NBA to adjudicate those differences. However, the NBA will not put itself in a position of regulating what players, employees and team owners say or will not say on these issues.

Adam Silver (as NBA Commissioner) - October 2019

2019 China

If the threat is jihadism - and it is - and the threat is the destruction of Syria so that all of these refugees are swamping into Europe and changing the whole character and politics of Europe, this is the time to unite to find a way out.

John F. Kerry

Syria

There's an agreement that Syria should be a unified country, united; that it needs to be secular; that ISIL needs to be taken on; and that there needs to be a managed transition, but there is a difference obviously in what that means and what that outcome may or may not be.

John F. Kerry

Syria

James Royce: "The Christians and the Jews didn't blow up the Capitol or run planes into the Twin Towers. Muslims did."
Emily Rhodes: "No, sir. Extremists did. And persecuting innocent people won't make any of us safer."

Emily Rhodes in Designated Survivor - Season 1 Episode 4

Tolerance Islam

A moderate Islam? That's an objection.

Geert Wilders - March 2008

Islam

Twitter is stupid and Instagram is Twitter for people who can't read.

Max Black in 2 Broke Girls - Season 2 Episode 2

Instagram X / Twitter

If you've been sexually harassed or assaulted write "me too" as a reply to this tweet.

Alyssa Milano - via Twitter, 15.10.2017 #metoo

2017 X / Twitter #MeToo

The number of "followers" you have does not make you better than anyone else. Hitler had millions, Jesus had 12.

Adolf Hitler Jesus Popularity Social Media

Give me your love and not your like!

Internet Social Media

I think about it every year, so I picked up a pen
Happy birthday, I love you whoever you would've been

Flipsyde - Happy Birthday

Abortion

I paid for the murder before they determined the sex
Choosing our life over your life meant your death
And you never got a chance to even open your eyes
Sometimes I wonder as a fetus, if you fought for your life

Flipsyde - Happy Birthday

Abortion

Jewish communities are warning their members to avoid specific places for their own safety - today, here in Germany, almost 80 years after the Holocaust.

Robert Habeck - November 2023

Judaism Holocaust 2023

Putin has started a war because he can't stand individual freedoms of the people. Because Ukraine has become a threat to his dictatorship with their longing for freedom. Dictators fear freedom. That's why he must not be successful with this war, because that would mean that dictators can attack freedom.

Robert Habeck - Juni 2022

Russia-Ukraine War

If Putin were to win this war, what sign would that be for other dictators in the world like Xi, like the Chinese President? So therefore Ukraine has to win this war.

Annalena Baerbock - September 2023

Xi Jinping Russia-Ukraine War

We've been lied to a lot by the Kreml for at least one-and-a-half years. So obviously, the whole world looks at the Kreml when a former close confidant of Putin literally falls out of the sky, two months after he launched a rebellion.

Annalena Baerbock - August 2023

Yevgeny Prigozhin

This is the dirty work that Israel is doing – for all of us. Otherwise, we might have continued to endure the terror of this regime for months or years – and possibly even with nuclear weapons.

Friedrich Merz - Juni 2025

Iran Israel 2025

A change of government is always a test of how mature a country's democracy is — whether the transition happens smoothly, without grandstanding or ambushes from either side. In every respect, I can say: Germany has once again passed this test.

Friedrich Merz - May 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon's Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn't do it!

Donald Trump - Juni 2025

Elon Musk

Falling down isn't dangerous or shameful. Not getting up is both.

Konrad Adenauer

Courage Giving Up

Konrad Adenauer

Olaf Scholz - December 2023

2023

Terror will not win, hatred will not prevail. Israel has every right to defend and to protect itself and its citizens. In this dark hour, Germany and France stand firmly by Israel's side.

Olaf Scholz - Oktober 2023

2023 Middle East Conflict

With clear language and undaunted diplomacy, he has significantly shaped the United States of America and post-war global politics.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier - December 2023

Henry Kissinger

Queen Elizabeth II helped mending the wounds caused by World War II. Britain offered Germany the hand of conciliation. And the hand of conciliation was the hand of the Queen.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier - September 2022

Death of Queen Elizabeth II

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

Forgiveness & Mercy Enemies & Opponents Names

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

John F. Kennedy - June 1963

Justice Air

It's not about counting women, it's about making sure that women count!

Claudia Roth - February 2019

Women's Rights

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Vladimir Lenin

Lies

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Vladimir Lenin

Weapons

Power itself isn't good or bad.

Kurt Georg Kiesinger

Power

All I say is: China, China, China!

Kurt Georg Kiesinger - September 1969

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

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