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All freedoms provided by democracy are for those who believe in it. Can the rights and freedoms of millions of virtuous people who believe in democracy be safeguarded if those who seek to destroy it abuse rights and freedoms to achieve their goals?

— Kenan Evren

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Notes from Wikiquote

Said Evren in defense of the decision to take power after the 1980 military coup.

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All my trust in the politicians had been rubbed away.

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I sometimes feel jealous of countries like the U.S. and Great Britain that have two neighbors. … When you have two neighbors, you have two problems. When you have eight neighbors, you have eight problems.

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