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No one has a right to lecture Turkey on what it should be doing.
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Turkey's EU relationship and Turkey's membership (in the) EU is important not only for Turkey and the EU, but for all international issues.
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I hope we will be achieving our goal to help all the refugees, as well as to deepen Turkish-EU relations -- which is ... good news for our continent and for humanity all together.
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on CNN 7 years ago
We don't want to see women and children dying in the Aegean Sea.
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Yesterday's attack was directly targeting Turkey and the perpetrator is the YPG and the divisive terrorist organisation PKK. All necessary measures will be taken against them.
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
I'd like to warn Russia, which is giving air support to the YPG in its advance on Azaz, not to use this terrorist group against the innocent people of Syria and Turkey, russia condemned yesterday's attack, but it is not enough. All those who intend to use terrorist organisations as proxies should know that this game of terror will turn around like a boomerang and hit them first.
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
I'd like to warn Russia, which is giving air support to the YPG in its advance on Azaz, not to use this terrorist group against the innocent people of Syria and Turkey, russia condemned yesterday's attack, but it is not enough. All those who intend to use terrorist organizations as proxies should know that this game of terror will turn around like a boomerang and hit them first.
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Yesterday's attack was directly targeting Turkey and the perpetrator is the YPG and the divisive terrorist organization PKK. All necessary measures will be taken against them.
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
They want to have just two options in front of the international community: Daesh or Assad.
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We will not allow Azaz to fall.
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Sixty to seventy thousand people in the camps in north Aleppo are moving towards Turkey. My mind is not now in London, but on our border - how to relocate these new people coming from Syria? three hundred thousand people living in Aleppo are ready to move towards Turkey.
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
For a solution, we have to identify the parties to the solution. One party is clear, the regime. Another party is clear, the opposition. Opposition means moderate Syrian opposition, the genuine opposition, and this is the Syrian national coalition (formed in Riyadh).
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Some circles, including Russia, they want to spoil the opposition side, putting some other elements in the opposition side like the YPG, which has been collaborating with the regime and attacking the moderate opposition.
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Turkey will be supporting any initiative for a political solution in Syria, except the only criteria we want is that the moderate opposition should be represented by their own will and initiative. There should not be any representation of terrorist groups around the table, some circles, including Russia, they want to spoil the opposition side, putting some other elements in the opposition side like the YPG, which has been collaborating with the regime and attacking the moderate opposition.
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
They haven't just targeted those who died, they have targeted the whole of Turkey and the whole world.
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Following the last EU-Turkey summit, relations with the EU have accelerated a great deal. A new chapter has been opened after nearly four years.
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Russia is trying to make ethnic cleansing in northern Latakia to force all Turkmen and Sunni population who do not have good relations with the regime, they want to expel them, they want to ethnically cleanse this area so that regime and Russian bases in Latakia and Tartus are protected.
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
This is an attack that does not target a specific group ; it is an attack on the entire nation and( an) attack on our unity. Turkey is a country that has managed to maintain peace in the region.
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Turkey's rules of engagement apply to all planes, be they Syrian, Russian or from elsewhere ... Necessary steps would be taken against whoever violates Turkey’s borders, even if it’s a bird, for Russia, which long opposed foreign intervention in Syria and blocked UN Security Council resolutions, to be actively involved in Syria is both a contradiction and a move that has escalated the crisis.
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Right now links to ISIS and it being a suicide bomber have gained probability, we expect the investigation to be completed as soon as possible.
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Insulting is a crime ... I am sad that it was a child, lately, insulting the president has reached such a point by the opposition that they are becoming a bad example for children.
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Arms should totally leave Turkey's agenda. Then, beautiful steps will be taken and the country will go through an atmosphere of spring.
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The source of the problem is the Assad regime’s brutality. Without solving that source, that reason, dealing only with (Islamic State) or other bi-products of this crisis will not be solving the problem altogether, (We want a) no-fly zone ... so that Aleppo will be protected at least against the air bombardment and there will be no new refugees coming to Turkey.
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
(Netanyahu) himself killed, his army killed children in the playground. They killed our citizens and an American citizen in international waters. This is terrorism, nobody can argue about Israeli aggression in Jerusalem in the al-Aqsa mosque.
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
These provocations create frustration in the Muslim world and are becoming one of the reasons why these radical trends are emerging, if we want to establish peace and order in the Middle East, eliminating all the extremist forces, we have to solve the Palestinian question.
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
On the border, up to now, there are refugee camps, there are certain places where there is much more strict control ... These military zones might be enlarged.
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Yes, of course, if needed yes. It is not our choice, it is the decision of the court, not the decision of the government. The government will do whatever is needed.
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
These provocations create frustration in the Muslim world and are becoming one of the reasons why these radical trends are emerging.
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
He himself killed, his army killed children in the playground. They killed our citizens and an American citizen in international waters. This is terrorism. Nobody can argue about Israeli aggression in Jerusalem in the al-Aqsa mosque, these provocations create frustration in the Muslim world and are becoming one of the reasons why these radical trends are emerging.
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Yes, of course, if needed yes. It is not our choice - it is the decision of the court, not the decision of the government. The government will do whatever is needed.
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Regardless of the commission's decision ... it was all, without doubt, a coup attempt and we have stood tall against this.
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Let's solve this issue, in order to exploit our energy resources and connect possible natural gas resources with Greece through Turkey.
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We will continue with the bilateral talks ... we need to go deeper and find a solution. We don't want tension, neither in the Aegean nor in the eastern Mediterranean, let's solve this issue, in order to exploit our energy resources and connect possible natural gas resources with Greece through Turkey.
– Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
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