Recep Tayyip Erdogan Quotes

I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.

Terrorism often finds a home in states mired in civil war …

ISIL is a terrorist army like we have never seen - they cannot be ignored.

In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of 'jihad'.

We need Hasan Nasrallah, millions of Hasan Nasrallahs. We need millions of Osama bin Ladens. We need millions of people armed with real active rage…. if self-defense, and defending our values, our identity, our culture, and our religion is terrorism, then we welcome every type of terrorism on the face of the earth.

You cannot fight one terrorist organization by making use of another terrorist organization.

We of course define all terror organizations as threats, but the PKK is the primary threat.

You cannot have good terrorists and bad terrorists.

Pakistan and its associates find it difficult to understand that there are no 'good terrorists and bad terrorists.'

The Taliban is resilient.

This is a war against terrorists. Not a war against a religion, but a war against terrorists.

Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies.

I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.

No matter how many plots we uncover and disrupt, no matter how many terrorist organizations we degrade or destroy, another individual or group will rise to take their place.

Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.

Let there be no mistake, Hamas is a ruthless terrorist organization.

The borderline between guerrilla warfare and crime, between patriotism and terrorism, is often a very thin one.

In the Middle East, the opposition is quite different than the opposition in advanced countries. In our countries, the opposition takes the form of explosions, assassinations, killings.

If you think you can finish ISIS off with the PYD and YPG, you cannot, because they are terrorist groups as well.

The real threat comes from terrorism.

The PKK is the number one threat in terms of terror in our country.

The rise of ISIS has exposed the darkest side of humanity - at times manifesting their violent ideology at our very doorsteps.

Terrorists and terrorism cannot be eliminated any more than we can rid the world of disease. There will always be those who will resort to force against innocent men, women, and children in pursuit of political goals.

Terrorism is perpetrated by individuals and cannot be blamed on any one religion, be it Sikhism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, or Christianity.

We are not fighting against the Palestinian people, and we are not at war with Islam. We are fighting against terrorism.