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President Erdogan

lines on the record: 7
first: 2014-09-24
most recent: 2014-09-24
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: un-security-council

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“Our goal should be to create an atmosphere of peace, democracy and stability in which millions of our Syrian brothers can safely return home and our Iraqi brothers can feel that they are part of Iraq. That should continue to be our goal, and Turkey will continue to carry out its efforts in that regard.”
2014-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7272 (2014) · source
“Only last week, more than 140,000 Syrian Kurdish refugees fleeing ISIL found shelter in our country, and we are also temporarily housing 70,000 Yazidis from Iraq. Despite our sacrifices and our expectation of solidarity, we have not received the kind of support that we have been looking for from the international community and have also been the target of unjust criticism in this context. This is really very sad for us. Turkey's determination in this regard cannot be questioned; the international community is going through a historical test of sincerity. If we go deep to the roots of the conflict and ensure the desired solidarity and cooperation, we can get results.”
2014-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7272 (2014) · source
“With that understanding, in 2011 Turkey, together with the United States, launched the Global Counterterrorism Forum. Turkey is taking all possible national, regional and international steps to counter this threat and is committed to taking enhanced measures in this regard. ISIL is a terrorist organization with blood on its hands. Since the very beginning, our Government has taken all necessary legal measures in this respect. In our fight against terrorism, all measures necessitated by our national interests will be taken with due regard for regional stability and humanitarian needs. There is tremendous pressure on Turkey's borders; since the beginning of the conflict in Syria we have taken in 1,300,000 Syrians from every ethnic and sectarian group.”
2014-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7272 (2014) · source
“We have also established risk-analysis groups at the airports. I should like to stress once again that we can stop this flow of foreign terrorist fighters only if our friends and partners who await our cooperation themselves show a spirit of cooperation. Another important issue we must touch upon is that neither exploitation of these measures by Islamophobic circles or damage to our common civilized values should be allowed. Turkey has suffered for years from the scourge of terrorism, which has claimed the lives of thousands of its children. We are among the best-placed to know the pain that terrorism brings and therefore would be among the first to try to ensure that we can prevent young people throughout the world from falling into the hands of terrorists.”
2014-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7272 (2014) · source
“But this fight cannot be carried out solely by Turkey. The threat of foreign terrorist fighters starts the moment such individuals depart from their countries of origin. Thus the combat against those individuals should start in the source countries, and our initial goal is therefore to prevent their entry into Turkey. For a long time we have been calling on the countries concerned to cooperate with us on this issue. Unfortunately, a timely reaction has not been shown on this issue either; with the deterioration of the situation, we have finally witnessed in recent times an increased flow of information from the source countries. Thanks to this, and within the scope of our struggle against foreign terrorist fighters, around 6,300 individuals have been included in the no-entry list and close to 1,000 foreigners have been deported.”
2014-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7272 (2014) · source
“The inertia of the international community, despite the policies of violence towards the Syrian population by the regime, has prepared the ground for Al-Qaida to re-emerge in Syria and grow stronger under the name of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), with the support of the regime. The spread of the ISIL threat towards Iraq is the result of conditions on the ground and has been nurtured by the earlier sectarian policies of the previous Government. Under these circumstances, the international community has to work together, because all problems can be overcome if it does. We have to take a comprehensive, realistic, long-term approach in order to overcome this threat. Turkey has been taking a leading role in this direction and has been working to prevent the flow of foreign fighters towards the region for quite a long time.”
2014-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7272 (2014) · source
“I should like to start by thanking my friend Barack for enabling such an important discussion to take place at the highest level. The issue of foreign terrorist fighters is no doubt a very important issue, one that is the reflection and a symptom of a bigger problem. The collapse of State structures in our southern neighbourhood and the resulting atmosphere of chaos and instability has created today a field of operations for terrorist organizations and, unfortunately, the region has become a magnet for terrorist fighters. Turkey, given the emergence of instability in Syria, has repeatedly issued all necessary warnings to the international community about this threat.”
2014-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7272 (2014) · source