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April 10, 2012

"An end of violence must be simultaneous with the arrival of the international observers."

- WALID AL-MOALLEMSyrian Foreign Minister, as tension mounted between Turkey and Syria on Tuesday after clashes between Syrian government forces and rebels spilled into Turkey; Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared that it was up to Syria to calm the border situation
July 23, 2007

"This is our promise. We will embrace Turkey as a whole without discriminating."

- Turkish Prime Minister RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGANafter his ruling party, AKP, won Sunday's national election. Critics have claimed the Islamist-rooted AKP will undermine Turkey's secular institutions
March 18, 2010

"They are not my citizens. I am not obliged to keep them in my country."

- RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN,Prime Minister of Turkey, threatening to expel 100,000 Armenians

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