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TURKEY'S PM TO BECOME LEADER OF MUSLIM WORLD?
Panorama.am
14:19 12/12/2009
Recep Tayyip Erdogan had a televised interview on English-broadcasting
news channel, Russia Today, during which he referred to Turkey's EU
membership and foreign policy issues, according to the Hurriyet Daily.
Responding to a question on whether he was poised to become a leader of
the Muslim world as a result of Turkey's multilateral foreign policy,
Erdogan said:
"I did not put any effort into becoming one. Things like this do not
happen just because someone wants to occupy this or that post. The
thing is, we believed in something. We believed in serving our people
in the best way possible. Of course, here in Turkey, we wanted to
establish equal relationships with other countries, because there is
a problem of inequality in our world."
Erdogan also said Turkey is committed to normalize relations with all
neighbor states towards the 100th anniversary of the Turkish Republic.
As to Ankara's disposition over France's and Germany's protests
against Turkey's EU integration, Erdogan said that they still have
hope and are intent to continue the path to the EU.
Responding to a question on relations with Armenia, Erdogan once again
adopted a rejecting attitude to the Genocide issue. He said, first of
all, Nagorno-Karabakh issue should be settled, the Armenian-Turkish
normalization new stage will follow this.
Panorama.am
14:19 12/12/2009
Recep Tayyip Erdogan had a televised interview on English-broadcasting
news channel, Russia Today, during which he referred to Turkey's EU
membership and foreign policy issues, according to the Hurriyet Daily.
Responding to a question on whether he was poised to become a leader of
the Muslim world as a result of Turkey's multilateral foreign policy,
Erdogan said:
"I did not put any effort into becoming one. Things like this do not
happen just because someone wants to occupy this or that post. The
thing is, we believed in something. We believed in serving our people
in the best way possible. Of course, here in Turkey, we wanted to
establish equal relationships with other countries, because there is
a problem of inequality in our world."
Erdogan also said Turkey is committed to normalize relations with all
neighbor states towards the 100th anniversary of the Turkish Republic.
As to Ankara's disposition over France's and Germany's protests
against Turkey's EU integration, Erdogan said that they still have
hope and are intent to continue the path to the EU.
Responding to a question on relations with Armenia, Erdogan once again
adopted a rejecting attitude to the Genocide issue. He said, first of
all, Nagorno-Karabakh issue should be settled, the Armenian-Turkish
normalization new stage will follow this.