Çıragan Iftar Meeting, 16 October 2008 When Turkey acts a solder brother there will be nobody in the whole regions who refuses to accept Turkey as older brother. Shiites, Jaferites, Saudis and the Iranians will all accept it. For example, when President Ahmadinejad came here he prayed behind a Sunni imam in a Sunni mosque. What does that mean? It means I will accept it if you are the leader. That is clear, He said, “I have given a political message here.” “I have issued a very important message,” he said. What more could he say? Hezbollah will accept it and everyone. Nobody in the whole region will refuse Turkish leadership. Because Turkey is a most moderate, agreeable and reasonable country. Its people are respectable and worthy, highly cultured and well brought up. And the country acted as leader for many years, as you know. It has experience from Ottoman times. Turkey will emerge as the older brother of all Turkic and all Islamic countries. Everyone will see that. I am stating it openly; and I will again put my name to those words in 10 years’ time, insha’Allah.Mavi Karadeniz TV, 31 December 2008 |