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title: "288 Turkey Quotes by 164 authors"
description: "Browse 288 Turkey quotes by 164 authors. Discover the best Turkey sayings and thoughts."
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> [Europe will get a stable and prosperous Turkey.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olli-rehn/europe-will-get-a-stable-and-prosperous-turkey/)

[Olli Rehn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olli-rehn/)

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> [Turkey was a peaceful county, Turkey was a lovely county.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/enes-kanter/turkey-was-a-peaceful-county-turkey-was-a-lovely-county/)

[Enes Kanter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/enes-kanter/)

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> [Moving to Turkey was the turning point in my life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tarkan/moving-to-turkey-was-the-turning-point-in-my-life/)

[Tarkan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tarkan/)

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> [Turkey does not have an official exchange rate target.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ali-babacan/turkey-does-not-have-an-official-exchange-rate-target/)

[Ali Babacan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ali-babacan/)

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> [When I was coaching in Turkey, my players played well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-carlos/when-i-was-coaching-in-turkey-my-players-played-well/)

[Roberto Carlos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-carlos/)

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> [No more turkey, but I'd like some more of the bread it ate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hank-ketcham/no-more-turkey-but-i-d-like-some-more-of-the-bread-it-ate/)

[Hank Ketcham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hank-ketcham/)

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> [When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/honor-de-balzac/when-in-turkey-do-as-the-turkeys-do/)

[Honore de Balzac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/honor-de-balzac/)

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> [I have never seen homosexual chicken or turkey.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yahya-jammeh/i-have-never-seen-homosexual-chicken-or-turkey/)

[Yahya Jammeh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yahya-jammeh/)

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> [“You are either Ataturk's turk or Erdogan's turk, you cannot be both.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abhijit-naskar/you-are-either-ataturk-s-turk-or-erdogan-s-turk-you-cannot-be-both/)

[Abhijit Naskar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abhijit-naskar/)

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> [Turkey's a NATO member. If Turkey gets attacked, we have to help defend Turkey.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-clark/turkey-s-a-nato-member-if-turkey-gets-attacked-we-have-to-help-defend/)

[Wesley Clark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wesley-clark/)

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> [It's harder and more sporting to hunt turkey with a shotgun, because it is difficult to get next to them with a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-fuller/it-s-harder-and-more-sporting-to-hunt-turkey-with-a-shotgun-because/)

[Robert Fuller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-fuller/)

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> [Under any circumstances, if I had to return to Turkey and face the gallows, I will not blink an eye.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fethullah-gulen/under-any-circumstances-if-i-had-to-return-to-turkey-and-face-the/)

[Fethullah Gulen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fethullah-gulen/)

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> [I really like Thanksgiving turkey... it does not take only time in Houston that you look at natural breasts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arnold-schwarzenegger/i-really-like-thanksgiving-turkey-it-does-not-take-only-time-in/)

[Arnold Schwarzenegger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arnold-schwarzenegger/)

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> [I am fond of turkey with all the stuffing, which is my favourite!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-tresa/i-am-fond-of-turkey-with-all-the-stuffing-which-is-my-favourite/)

[Catherine Tresa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-tresa/)

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> [Russia is a very big country, so we were traveling a lot more. Turkey isn't as hard on my body, so that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jordan-larson/russia-is-a-very-big-country-so-we-were-traveling-a-lot-more-turkey/)

[Jordan Larson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jordan-larson/)

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> [Israel is thirsting for water, and Turkey is overflowing with it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-kinzer/israel-is-thirsting-for-water-and-turkey-is-overflowing-with-it/)

[Stephen Kinzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-kinzer/)

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> [There is much to justify Turkey's reverence for Ataturk. He is the force that allowed Turkey to rise from the ashes of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-kinzer/there-is-much-to-justify-turkey-s-reverence-for-ataturk-he-is-the/)

[Stephen Kinzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-kinzer/)

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> [The United States is facing serious pushback from Turkey, which is not comfortable with the view that the Islamic State is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vijay-prashad/the-united-states-is-facing-serious-pushback-from-turkey-which-is-not/)

[Vijay Prashad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vijay-prashad/)

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> [A Turkey under a dictatorial regime, providing haven to violent radicals and pushing its Kurdish citizens into desperation, would be a nightmare…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fethullah-gulen/a-turkey-under-a-dictatorial-regime-providing-haven-to-violent/)

[Fethullah Gulen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fethullah-gulen/)

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> [The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orhan-pamuk/the-fictive-structure-my-work-my-imagination-my-books-are-about-the/)

[Orhan Pamuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orhan-pamuk/)

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> [Turkey has a very young, dynamic, curious population. In Europe, Facebook and Twitter are mostly about sharing daily experiences while for Turkish…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elif-safak/turkey-has-a-very-young-dynamic-curious-population-in-europe-facebook/)

[Elif Safak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elif-safak/)

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> [Turkey is the gateway to the east for Europe, and the gateway to Europe for the east. We have a bridging function…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/recep-tayyip-erdogan/turkey-is-the-gateway-to-the-east-for-europe-and-the-gateway-to/)

[Recep Tayyip Erdogan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/recep-tayyip-erdogan/)

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> [Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yotam-ottolenghi/tiny-quails-may-not-seem-as-impressive-as-a-mammoth-turkey-but-there/)

[Yotam Ottolenghi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yotam-ottolenghi/)

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> [Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/italo-calvino/although-i-am-small-ugly-and-dirty-i-am-highly-ambitious-and-at-the/)

[Italo Calvino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/italo-calvino/)

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> [I realized that I didn't need nearly as many calories as I'd grown accustomed to. I ate 100 to 200 calories every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-richman/i-realized-that-i-didn-t-need-nearly-as-many-calories-as-i-d-grown/)

[Adam Richman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-richman/)

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> [“From the first, Istanbul had given him the impression of a town where, with the night, horror creeps out of the stones.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-fleming/from-the-first-istanbul-had-given-him-the-impression-of-a-town-where/)

[Ian Fleming](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-fleming/)

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> [Mehmet Ertegun died in 1944. President Roosevelt sent his body back to Turkey on the U.S.S. Missouri. Mehmet Ertegun and President Roosevelt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-w-s-trow/mehmet-ertegun-died-in-1944-president-roosevelt-sent-his-body-back-to/)

[George W. S. Trow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-w-s-trow/)

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> [ He \[Erdogan\] has crept up to the edge talking about mistakes by pilots. But he also knows that with leaders like himself… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-kenyon/he-erdogan-has-crept-up-to-the-edge-talking-about-mistakes-by-pilots/)

[Peter Kenyon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-kenyon/)

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> [In the 1950s, Pakistan allied with the United States in something called the Central Treaty Organization. We were lined up with, at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-clark/in-the-1950s-pakistan-allied-with-the-united-states-in-something/)

[Wesley Clark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wesley-clark/)

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> [The FCO must help Turkey reinforce accountable state institutions, while also developing ties far beyond them: the UK needs a deeper and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/crispin-blunt/the-fco-must-help-turkey-reinforce-accountable-state-institutions/)

[Crispin Blunt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/crispin-blunt/)

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> [I've been intrigued by 'Le Monde' ever since work took me to Paris once, and I noted that on a day when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-hoggart/i-ve-been-intrigued-by-le-monde-ever-since-work-took-me-to-paris-once/)

[Simon Hoggart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-hoggart/)

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> [“Do not tell me that it is not God-like to get angry or go into a fit of rage. God himself when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keri-topouzian/do-not-tell-me-that-it-is-not-god-like-to-get-angry-or-go-into-a-fit/)

[Keri Topouzian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keri-topouzian/)

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> [“Springtime in Turkey and the South Caucasus is idealized for good reason. Valleys are carpeted with wildflowers and the land is one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caroline-eden/springtime-in-turkey-and-the-south-caucasus-is-idealized-for-good/)

[Caroline Eden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/caroline-eden/)

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> [I'm optimistic about Turkey's prospects for reaching the E.U.'s standards of development, governance, and democracy, whether inside or outside the E.U. Provided…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-mango/i-m-optimistic-about-turkey-s-prospects-for-reaching-the-e-u-s/)

[Andrew Mango](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-mango/)

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> [“Ultimately, the roast turkey must be regarded as a monument to Boomer's love. Look at it now, plump and glossy, floating across…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/ultimately-the-roast-turkey-must-be-regarded-as-a-monument-to-boomer/)

[Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/)

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> [So many academics have been imprisoned or expelled from their university posts just because they signed a letter calling for peaceful solution…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/burhan-sonmez/so-many-academics-have-been-imprisoned-or-expelled-from-their/)

[Burhan Sonmez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/burhan-sonmez/)

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> [We've seen in Europe after the recent terrorist attacks a certain retrogression in human rights. It depends on how threatened the Turks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-mango/we-ve-seen-in-europe-after-the-recent-terrorist-attacks-a-certain/)

[Andrew Mango](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-mango/)

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> [Tayyip Erdogan wants to go beyond George W. Bush by making critical journalism and critics in the academy illegal. What will be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tariq-ali/tayyip-erdogan-wants-to-go-beyond-george-w-bush-by-making-critical/)

[Tariq Ali](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tariq-ali/)

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> [“Actually—and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable—some such divine claim underlay not just 'the occupation' but the whole idea…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/actually-and-this-was-where-i-began-to-feel-seriously-uncomfortable/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [“1. Bangladesh… In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/1-bangladesh-in-1971-kissinger-overrode-all-advice-in-order-to-2/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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                        "text": "“Springtime in Turkey and the South Caucasus is idealized for good reason. Valleys are carpeted with wildflowers and the land is one of bewildering variety. Apricot trees start frothing white blossoms, soft green buds begin appearing on willow branches and the quince orchards turn pink with flowers. And as soon as herbs come to life, imbued with the spirit of the green blooming hillsides, they are greeted and rallied to the table. Dill and parsley fill freshly griddled flatbreads--- qutabs in Azerbaijan, jingalov hats in Armenia, gözleme in Turkey--- often elevated by little more than a generous brushing of first-rate butter. In Georgia, coriander soup, thickened with potato, is served with dark rye bread. In Turkey, fresh mint is mixed freely with cucumbers, yoghurt and water, or with pureed broad beans. In Turkish, I am told, there is even a verb used for chopping herbs, kıymak.”",
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                        "text": "I'm optimistic about Turkey's prospects for reaching the E.U.'s standards of development, governance, and democracy, whether inside or outside the E.U. Provided you have a prosperous, rational society in Turkey that can interact with Europe and the West, I don't really care what kind of institutional arrangement you have. The point to make about Turkey and Europe is that it's a very long, drawn-out process. What's important is that the process not be stopped, that Turkey and Europe evolve in the right direction, on a path of convergence. Convergence is the name of the game.",
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                        "text": "“Ultimately, the roast turkey must be regarded as a monument to Boomer's love. Look at it now, plump and glossy, floating across Idaho as if it were a mammoth, mutated seed pod. Hear how it backfires as it passes the silver mines, perhaps in tribute to the origin of the knives and forks of splendid sterling that a roast turkey and a roast turkey alone possesses the charisma to draw forth into festivity from dark cupboards. See how it glides through the potato fields, familiarly at home among potatoes but with an air of expectation, as if waiting for the flood of gravy. The roast turkey carries with it, in its chubby hold, a sizable portion of our primitive and pagan luggage. Primitive and pagan? Us? We of the laser, we of the microchip, we of the Union Theological Seminary and Time magazine? Of course. At least twice a year, do not millions upon millions of us cybernetic Christians and fax machine Jews participate in a ritual, a highly stylized ceremony that takes place around a large dead bird? And is not this animal sacrificed, as in days of yore, to catch the attention of a divine spirit, to show gratitude for blessings bestowed, and to petition for blessings coveted? The turkey, slain, slowly cooked over our gas or electric fires, is the central figure at our holy feast. It is the totem animal that brings our tribe together. And because it is an awkward, intractable creature, the serving of it establishes and reinforces the tribal hierarchy. There are but two legs, two wings, a certain amount of white meat, a given quantity of dark. Who gets which piece; who, in fact, slices the bird and distributes its limbs and organs, underscores quite emphatically the rank of each member in the gathering. Consider that the legs of this bird are called 'drumsticks,' after the ritual objects employed to extract the music from the most aboriginal and sacred of instruments. Our ancestors, kept their drums in public, but the sticks, being more actively magical, usually were stored in places known only to the shaman, the medicine man, the high priest, of the Wise Old Woman. The wing of the fowl gives symbolic flight to the soul, but with the drumstick is evoked the best of the pulse of the heart of the universe. Few of us nowadays participate in the actual hunting and killing of the turkey, but almost all of us watch, frequently with deep emotion, the reenactment of those events. We watch it on TV sets immediately before the communal meal. For what are footballs if not metaphorical turkeys, flying up and down a meadow? And what is a touchdown if not a kill, achieved by one or the other of two opposing tribes? To our applause, great young hungers from Alabama or Notre Dame slay the bird. Then, the Wise Old Woman, in the guise of Grandma, calls us to the table, where we, pretending to be no longer primitive, systematically rip the bird asunder. Was Boomer Petaway aware of the totemic implications when, to impress his beloved, he fabricated an outsize Thanksgiving centerpiece? No, not consciously. If and when the last veil dropped, he might comprehend what he had wrought. For the present, however, he was as ignorant as Can o' Beans, Spoon, and Dirty Sock were, before Painted Stick and Conch Shell drew their attention to similar affairs. Nevertheless, it was Boomer who piloted the gobble-stilled butterball across Idaho, who negotiated it through the natural carving knives of the Sawtooth Mountains, who once or twice parked it in wilderness rest stops, causing adjacent flora to assume the appearance of parsley.”",
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                        "text": "So many academics have been imprisoned or expelled from their university posts just because they signed a letter calling for peaceful solution to the Kurdish issue. They are all declared enemies of the state by the president. Just because they published a letter saying, \"stop killing each other and begin talking for a peaceful resolution.\" That kind of intolerance from the government towards the rest of society - especially people in favor of freedom of speech, human rights, and more democracy for everyone - is a very important issue in Turkey.",
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                        "text": "We've seen in Europe after the recent terrorist attacks a certain retrogression in human rights. It depends on how threatened the Turks feel. For example, Turkey became much more tolerant towards Kurdish nationalists when the killing of Turkish soldiers stopped in southeastern Turkey and body bags stopped arriving. Now, since June there's been a revival of Kurdish attacks on Turkish troops - something like 150 people have been killed by terrorists supplied from and operating out of bases in northern Iraq. So Turks are feeling much less tolerant of Kurdish nationalism.",
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                        "text": "Tayyip Erdogan wants to go beyond George W. Bush by making critical journalism and critics in the academy illegal. What will be the difference between him and a military government? Very little. I read his remarks on the effectiveness of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany. Well, yes. But then the AKP would have to ban all other political parties, close down all critical newspapers, burn the books critical of the regime and gas the Kurds to death...the final solution of the Kurdish 'problem.' Somehow I don't think he is about to do that.",
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                        "text": "“Actually—and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable—some such divine claim underlay not just 'the occupation' but the whole idea of a separate state for Jews in Palestine. Take away the divine warrant for the Holy Land and where were you, and what were you? Just another land-thief like the Turks or the British, except that in this case you wanted the land without the people. And the original Zionist slogan—'a land without a people for a people without a land'—disclosed its own negation when I saw the densely populated Arab towns dwelling sullenly under Jewish tutelage. You want irony? How about Jews becoming colonizers at just the moment when other Europeans had given up on the idea?”",
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                        "text": "“1. Bangladesh… In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy in East Bengal and their armed attack on India from West Pakistan… This led to a moral and political catastrophe the effects of which are still sorely felt. Kissinger’s undisclosed reason for the ‘tilt’ was the supposed but never materialised ‘brokerage’ offered by the dictator Yahya Khan in the course of secret diplomacy between Nixon and China… Of the new state of Bangladesh, Kissinger remarked coldly that it was ‘a basket case’ before turning his unsolicited expertise elsewhere. 2. Chile… Kissinger had direct personal knowledge of the CIA’s plan to kidnap and murder General René Schneider, the head of the Chilean Armed Forces ... who refused to countenance military intervention in politics. In his hatred for the Allende Government, Kissinger even outdid Richard Helms ... who warned him that a coup in such a stable democracy would be hard to procure. The murder of Schneider nonetheless went ahead, at Kissinger’s urging and with American financing, just between Allende’s election and his confirmation… This was one of the relatively few times that Mr Kissinger (his success in getting people to call him ‘Doctor’ is greater than that of most PhDs) involved himself in the assassination of a single named individual rather than the slaughter of anonymous thousands. His jocular remark on this occasion—‘I don’t see why we have to let a country go Marxist just because its people are irresponsible’—suggests he may have been having the best of times… 3. Cyprus… Kissinger approved of the preparations by Greek Cypriot fascists for the murder of President Makarios, and sanctioned the coup which tried to extend the rule of the Athens junta (a favoured client of his) to the island. When despite great waste of life this coup failed in its objective, which was also Kissinger’s, of enforced partition, Kissinger promiscuously switched sides to support an even bloodier intervention by Turkey. Thomas Boyatt ... went to Kissinger in advance of the anti-Makarios putsch and warned him that it could lead to a civil war. ‘Spare me the civics lecture,’ replied Kissinger, who as you can readily see had an aphorism for all occasions. 4. Kurdistan. Having endorsed the covert policy of supporting a Kurdish revolt in northern Iraq between 1974 and 1975, with ‘deniable’ assistance also provided by Israel and the Shah of Iran, Kissinger made it plain to his subordinates that the Kurds were not to be allowed to win, but were to be employed for their nuisance value alone. They were not to be told that this was the case, but soon found out when the Shah and Saddam Hussein composed their differences, and American aid to Kurdistan was cut off. Hardened CIA hands went to Kissinger ... for an aid programme for the many thousands of Kurdish refugees who were thus abruptly created… The apercu of the day was: ‘foreign policy should not he confused with missionary work.’ Saddam Hussein heartily concurred. 5. East Timor. The day after Kissinger left Djakarta in 1975, the Armed Forces of Indonesia employed American weapons to invade and subjugate the independent former Portuguese colony of East Timor. Isaacson gives a figure of 100,000 deaths resulting from the occupation, or one-seventh of the population, and there are good judges who put this estimate on the low side. Kissinger was furious when news of his own collusion was leaked, because as well as breaking international law the Indonesians were also violating an agreement with the United States… Monroe Leigh ... pointed out this awkward latter fact. Kissinger snapped: ‘The Israelis when they go into Lebanon—when was the last time we protested that?’ A good question, even if it did not and does not lie especially well in his mouth. It goes on and on and on until one cannot eat enough to vomit enough.”",
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