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There is a heated debate in Turkey these days over whether the government of Prime Minister Recep Ta... MUSTAFA AKYOL Throughout history; the Turks' political organization has developed in step with their military orga...
TURKISH GENERAL STAFF Your Majesty may think me an impatient sick man, and that the Turks are even sicker.
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) Tanrı misafiri sözcüğü sadece Türklere aitti.
AYşE KULIN
Say, like those wicked Turks, there is no What's-his-name but Thingummy, and What-you-may-call-it is... CHARLES DICKENS
The greatest hero for a country is the person who gave a progressive vision, a peaceful soul, a mode... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Much has been said and continues to be said of what little concern the Turks had for the Acropolis t...
MELINA MERCOURI Interpreting dreams for Iranians was just as much a sacrament as reading coffee cups was for Turks
SOROOSH SHAHRIVAR The Turks are planning to spend $30 billion in the next 10 years to upgrade their military. Israel w...
EFRAIM INBAR Turks are waking up to two facts. One is that everything told to the Turkish people by EU leaders is...
BURAK TURNA
But here I say the Turks were much mistaken - Who, hating hogs, yet wished to save their bacon LORD BYRON When I was in Turks & Caicos, a bug jumped out of my room service menu. That kind of freaked me ...
JACQUELYN JABLONSKI
The white lily stands for purity. Artists for centuries have pictured the angel Gabriel coming to th... CARROLL BRYANT
Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this... ORHAN PAMUK
[Turks] one and all, bag and baggage, shall I hope clear out from
the province they have desolated... RT. HON. WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE
The desired modernization and rationalisation of Turkey will never be realised till the day the Mode... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN As I grew up, I began to discover a little bit about the situation of black people in America and ex...
AHMET ERTEGUN
[The Turks] one and all, bag and baggage, shall, I hope, clear out from the province they have desol... WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE The streets were empty, the courtyards and gardens as if dead. In the Turkish houses depression and ...
IVO ANDRIć It was an irresponsible attempt to drive undecided voters into Merkel's camp by appealing to xenopho...
LUTZ ERBRING Turks have long admired the sultan, Mehmet II, for his military triumphs, especially his capture of ...
STEPHEN KINZER And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of ...
MELINA MERCOURI In the beginning it was all black and white.
MAUREEN O'HARA
At the end of the Roman Empire, in the Byzantine period, the empire shrinks and shrinks until it con... NORMAN DAVIES Family planning, birth control, no Muslim family can practice such an understanding.
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparen...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the M...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attac...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this co...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN I am one of the first political leaders officially declaring that anti-Semitism is a crime. I expect...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of ...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Turkey will be in Cyprus forever.
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN I regard the endorsement of both the objective and a method - which can differ from one country to a...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effecti...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratiza...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on ...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in pr...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consen...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN A political party cannot have a religion. Only individuals can. Otherwise, you'd be exploiting r...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peo...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, susp...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized.
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN So far, I have not come to any of the positions that I have filled through wanting to be there. I wa...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Attempts by one ethnic group to exercise sovereignty over another are not fair. It doesn't matte...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN There is no Kurdish problem.
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN The Kurdish problem is not only the problem of one part of my nation: it is a problem of every one o...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marath...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN The foundations of democratic transition should be laid in accordance with a sincere and committed s...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Islam is a religion. It is not an ideology. For a Muslim, there is no such thing as to be against mo...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN We have taken another giant step in our march toward Europe, ... The journey will be fraught with di...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN We passed the most important phase on the way to reaching our 40-year goal and the founding principl...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN What did this person become famous for? ... We have programs at the moment that follow a trend that ...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN If everybody knows what his or her duty is then we will be more beneficial to our country. Everyone ...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN My wish is this -- the world is using resources for armaments, they should also put aside resources ...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN E.U. membership is the means of realizing Turkey's claim of being a democratic, liberal, just and pr...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN That resolution is not binding. It does not matter whether they took such a decision or not. We will...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN I said to (President) Bush if there is time, then a referendum can be carried out,
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN It's ridiculous to call this bargaining for dollars. The political and military dimensions are far m...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Turkish citizens of Kurdish origins.
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Turkey has taken a giant step forward on its historic march.
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN We will do whatever is possible to assist you in this crisis,
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Bird flu is totally under control, ... The outbreak ... occurred in one area and has been contained....
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN We know of the nature of the regime in Syria. We constantly try to inspire them toward more democrac...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN end up a Christian club.
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN [Turkey seized on the German result to call on its opponents in Europe to] reconsider ... It was an ...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Time to time I get together with the rabbis, with religious leaders, leaders of congregations, and I...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN A woman who abstains from motherhood saying 'I am working' means she is in fact rejecting mo...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democra...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Islamophobia emerged from the Western countries, and this is a challenge that we all together need t...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Your targets can only be realized on the basis of dreams.
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Turkey is a sovereign state, just like the U.S. We might go to different directions, in terms of our...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN We have a very significant number of Jewish citizens, and they have always been safe and secure wher...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Democracy is like a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off.
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN I am aware of the thesis that the United States has long since invested exclusively in stability and...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a po...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN During the Gezi protests and PKK terror campaigns, the unity and solidarity of the Turkish nation we...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN
South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white. THABO MBEKI
In the cities of the European Franks, women roam about exposing not only their faces, but also their... ORHAN PAMUK As far as concerns the army, I don't know which people among us can claim to be more disciplined and...
FRANCESCO SANSOVINO
T. E. Lawrence was far more than a glamorous, swashbuckling, heroic figure in flowing robes mounted ... MICHAEL KORDA And they said if we help with the crisis, they would do a lot of positive acts. After we helped in t...
AKBAR HASHEMI RAFSANJANI I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzeg...
EMIR KUSTURICA Turks are a proud people. Countries like France think we are begging them to join the EU, but the re...
BURAK TURNA
We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fas... RALPH WALDO EMERSON
True satisfaction and true justice, in my belief, will only come for Americans, and for that matter ... RICHARD ARMITAGE As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, R...
P. J. O'ROURKE When Joan D' Arc was asked by her judges why as a Christian she did not love the British, she an...
JEAN-MARIE LE PEN The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmak...
OTTO SCHILY America is as much a black country as a white one. The lives and destinies of the white American are...
AMIRI BARAKA In primary school, every day and especially on Fridays, I was supposed to say, 'I am Turkish, an...
OSMAN BAYDEMIR
The city was a puzzle box built of symbols, a confusion of old and new, armored cars and donkeys in ... STEWART O'NAN The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that...
HANS BLIX
Eastern Muslim countries, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, are relative success stories, as they are ... CONRAD BLACK
Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity. RANDALL KENNEDY
