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Turkey, is the leader country in democracy and secularism among the countries having a majority of Muslim population.

— Bülent Ecevit

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Yet, whatever the negative effects of such external factors may be, surmounting our deficiencies is primarily our own task and responsibility.

However, democracy has survived and will survive in Turkey because the Turkish society is already well beyond the point of return and because the people would not put up with any alternative regime.

Happy Greece has returned to democracy. Only wish is that the new government should realise the value of close cooperation between Turkey and Greece.

The Turks have been Europeans for 600 years. But the Turks are not only Europeans. They are also Asian, Caucasian and Middle Eastern at once.

The unity of the Turkish nation is based on the fact that ethnic differentiation is alien to the traditional attitudes and social relations of the people of Turkey. Throughout history, ethnic or religious conflicts emerged in Turkey only when there were provocations from outside.

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