June 18th, 2014, Vatan Newspaper
Mr Erdoğan answered criticisms of the developments in the Middle East in one of his interviews and said: “Calling the Middle East, a region where millions of people reside, calling the motherland a “swamp” is racism, segregation, the occurrence of fascism. No matter which part of the world it may be, a person with conscience cannot describe it as a swamp. Especially calling a region where we have ethnic and religious connections a swamp doesn’t do any good other than increasing our problems.” |