Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: Doing

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is 12th President of Turkey from 2014. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
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“You cannot place a mother breastfeeding her baby on an equal footing with men. You cannot make women work in the same jobs as men do, as in communist regimes. You cannot give them a shovel and tell them to do their work. This is against their delicate nature.”

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

As quoted in "Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: ‘women not equal to men’" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/24/turkeys-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan-women-not-equal-men, The Guardian (November 24, 2014)

Women , Men , Nature , Baby

“Those who do not want to take a side will be eliminated (read as: irrelevant for) from the process.”

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

As quoted in "Bosses Unions Clash over Referendum Results" http://www.todayszaman.com/news-222330-bosses-unions-clash-over-referendum-results.html, Today's Zaman (2010)

Reading

“In my country there are 170,000 Armenians. Seventy thousand of them are citizens. We tolerate 100,000 more. So, what am I going to do tomorrow? If necessary I will tell the 100,000: OK, time to go back to your country. Why? They are not my citizens. I am not obliged to keep them in my country.”

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

As quoted in "Shut Up About Armenians or We'll Hurt Them Again" http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2010/04/shut_up_about_armenians_or_well_hurt_them_again.html, Slate (April 5, 2010)

Time , Country

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

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

As quoted in Erdogan: "Democracy in the Middle East, PluralIism in Europe: Turkish View" http://www.turkishweekly.net/article/8/erdogan-democracy-in-the-middle-east-pluraliism-in-europe-turkish-view-.html, The Turkish Weekly (October 12, 2004)

Democracy

“You cried out when 50,000 refugees were at the Kapikule border… You started asking what you would do if Turkey would open the gates. Look at me — if you go further, those border gates will be open. You should know that.”

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

As quoted in "Erdogan Threatens to Let Migrant Flood Into Europe Resume" http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/world/europe/turkey-recep-tayyip-erdogan-migrants-european-union.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0, The New York Times (November 25, 2016)