Administration Quote by Adam Schiff

It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people…

— Orhan Pamuk

Foreign journalists writing about Turkey like to focus on the most fundamental divide in Turkish society: the rift between religious conservatives and secularists.

— Mustafa Akyol

When I had to say something that I didn't like to Turkey, but of which I was sure, I said it, with the consequences…

— Pope Francis

I often speak with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. When I speak with the Turkish president, I defend European positions. That is how we…

— Emmanuel Macron

When I say all of this stuff about Turkey, people don't understand. They think I don't like Turkey. I love Turkey. I love my…

— Enes Kanter

The Turks know that if they want to join the EU, then they must respect our rules. We are a union of beliefs, not…

— Jean-Claude Juncker

Turkey is trying to fight with ISIS in al-Bab, in Syria, in Iraq, and our allies who have been with ISIS are not providing…

— Egemen Bag?s

When you go from one part of the Turkish community to another, it's like you're moving from one century to another. People look at…

— Burhan Sonmez

So many academics have been imprisoned or expelled from their university posts just because they signed a letter calling for peaceful solution to the…

— Burhan Sonmez

It is tiring to be Turkish. The country is badly polarised, bitterly politicized. Every writer, journalist, poet knows that because of an article, a…

— Elif Safak

“As liberal columnist Şahin Alpay points out, however, the fundamental division in Turkish society is not between Islamists and secularists but between those who…

— Graham E. Fuller

I am proud to be a Turk, and to write in Turkish about Turkey - and to have been translated into about 40 languages.…

— Orhan Pamuk