Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in a November 26, 2024 speech he delivered in Ankara at the Seventh Religious Council, which was organized by Turkey's Religious Affairs Ministry, that the West’s progress is built on "blood, tears, massacres, genocide, and exploitation," that it is to the exclusion of the East’s "civilization of divine and humane love," and that the day will come when Western civilization "collapses with a great clamor" and Eastern civilization will flourish and rise up. He also said: "Those who manage and spread the digital tecno-culture are earning serious money, while they simultaneously inject their own ideas, beliefs, and lifestyles into new generations."
Tayyip Erdoğan: "The West's progress – built on blood, tears, massacres, genocide, and exploitation... And I emphasize this... It has temporarily gained the upper hand to strangle the divine and human-centered civilization of the East.
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"There will come a day, sooner or later, when the parenthesis of the period of progress that exclude the sacred and humane will be closed, and as Western civilization collapses with a great clamor, and our civilization of divine and humane love, with our essence and our spirit, will flourish, and it will rear up even more strongly, with God's permission.
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"Palestine, Gaza, Lebanon, and the other Islamic regions – those who are trying to cause the extinction of Muslims in these places are out in the open.
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"We need to realize that the digital world is not simply a capitalist vehicle, and that it is not driven only by purposes of entertainment and earning money. We see that those who manage and spread the digital techno-culture are earning serious money, while they simultaneously inject their own ideas, beliefs, and lifestyles into new generations."