Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 1954-02-26) is the prime minister of the Republic of Turkey.
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- In the land where riffraff (hinting the workers who want to celebrate May Day at Taksim Square) rule the heads, there will be Doomsday.
- (2008), quoted in a "Speech on Justice and Development Party members at Grand National Assembly of Turkey", 2008-04-22.
- The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers...
- Poem (1998), quoted in "Turkey's charismatic pro-Islamic leader", BBC News, 2001-11-04. URL accessed on 2007-04-14.
- Democracy is like a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off.
- (1995), quoted in "The Erdogan Experiment", New York Times, 2003-05-11. URL accessed on 2007-10-07.
- How reputable is a doctor who flees from his hospital? An MP who runs from parliament is as reputable.
- (2007), quoted in "Turkey on the Turn", Special Broadcasting Service (Australia), April 2007. URL accessed on 2008-11-01.
- There are people who say that "Gül can't be my president". These people don't have good manners and they should renounce their Turkish citizenships.
- (2007), quoted in Speech on Turkish citizenship
- We are all human beings. (original: Hepimiz insanız)
- (February, 2008) during his speech commemorating turkish arson victims in Germany
