One Minute: Excerpts from speeches delivered by Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of Turkey

We have not bowed down to anyone but Allah! And we will not!

Positions and posts are not eternal in this world.

We live religion; you use it as a tool.

We are the members of such a great civilization that it’s first command is “read”. This is the civilization we come from. We have to do away with ignorance.

Even if everyone turned their backs on Palestine, we will not. Even if everyone looked the other way, we will not turn our faces away from our Palestinian brothers.

Just as Mecca, Medina, Cairo, Beirut, Damascus, Diyarbakır, Ankara and İstanbul are brothers, the whole world should know that Ramallah, Nablus, Jenin, Rafah, Gaza and Jerusalem are also brothers of these cities, as well as of us. Every drop of blood spilled in these cities, can be considered to be the blood in our veins. Every life taken in these cities is as if our own lives are being taken away. Sooner or later, today or tomorrow, the lives of those inhumanely massacred innocent children will definitely and absolutely be accounted for.