Every instigator or madman, who will dare to raise his hand against the government, let him be sure that the government will chop it off.
President of Turkey since 2014
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Turkey's president since 2014, he turned a landslide as a reformist prime minister into two decades of tightening grip — rewriting the constitution, jailing a rival mayor, and steering a NATO member into open quarrels with the West while the lira sank and protests rolled.
Born in Istanbul in 1954, Erdoğan climbed through local Islamist politics to win the mayorship in 1994, then spent four months in prison in 1998 for reciting a poem the state called incitement. Released in 1999, he co-founded the Justice and Development Party, dropped the overtly Islamist line, and rode economic recovery and EU talks to the prime minister's office in 2003. A decade of growth and reduced military meddling gave way to something harder: peace talks with Kurdish militants collapsed in 2015, and his first directly elected presidency brought democratic backsliding, a redrawn system…
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Every instigator or madman, who will dare to raise his hand against the government, let him be sure that the government will chop it off.
Mr. Peres, you are older than I am. And your voice is genuinely loud.
We are all human beings. (original: Hepimiz insanız)
There are people who say that "Gül can't be my president".
In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.
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