From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country. So, who killed ? That’s another question.
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The captain doesn’t think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.
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For Turkey, they think that if the Muslim Brotherhood take over the rest of the region, they will be very comfortable, they will be very happy, they will make sure that their political future is guaranteed.
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We don’t say that we don’t have it, we’re still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.
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The second thing that we want to tell Congress, that they should ask and that what we expect them to ask this administration about the evidence that they have regarding the chemical story and allegations that they presented.
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I will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent.
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The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
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We don’t discuss this issue [conversations with Russia] as a government, but we discuss the repercussions, which is more important because sometimes repercussions could be more destroying than the strike itself.
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You hardly find any military base in distant areas from the [Syria] cities unless it’s an airport or something like this, but most of the military bases or centers within inhabited areas.
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Tayyip Erdoğan is megalomaniac President, he is not stable. He lives during the Ottoman era, he doesn’t live in the current time. He’s out of touch with the reality.
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None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.
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That’s the problem with the American position; they think that they are the police of the world.
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When people interact and integrate with each other on daily basis in every detail. So, I think in this regard I am more assured that Syria will be more unified. So, the only problem now that we face is not the partition, but terrorism.
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Using terrorism or jihadists or extremists for any political agenda is immoral.
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In the end a lie is a lie.
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Foreigners cannot bring freedom, cannot bring democracy, because this is related to the culture, to the different factors that affect or influence that society. You cannot bring it, you cannot import it.
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