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

— Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

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There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization.

Those shedding crocodile tears for civilians killed in the Ukraine-Russia war are silently watching the deaths of thousands of innocent children in Gaza.

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

These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.

It is still not completely clear how ramified this organisation is [ Fethullah Gülen ] which resembles your P2 lodge, a criminal organisation that calls itself religious.

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