Ataturk Quote by Ahmet Ertegun

My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.

— Ahmet Ertegun

“We used to be brothers and sisters here. Kurdish, did not know he was. Turkmenians, Germans, they all existed here but never were proud…

— Orhan Pamuk

The Turkish people are the friendliest I've ever met.

— Keeley Hawes

Because of our Turkish roots, we still have a very strong relationship with Turkey.

— Ilkay Gundogan

In this country, there is a segregation of Black Turks and White Turks. Your brother Tayyip belongs to the Black Turks.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

There is much to justify Turkey's reverence for Ataturk. He is the force that allowed Turkey to rise from the ashes of defeat and…

— Stephen Kinzer

My family is a Jewish Iranian family, but I was born in Turkey and raised in Italy. So it's a very mixed background.

— Nouriel Roubini

We do not only have a Turkish side, inherited from our parents and our families, we were born and raised in Gelsenkirchen. It is…

— Ilkay Gundogan

It's probably worth noting that although I'm ethnically Greek, my grandfather was actually born in Turkey and came through Greece on his way to…

— James G. Stavridis

The main thing is that Ataturk saw the desperate condition of the countries that had not had an industrial revolution. Ataturk saw where history…

— Ahmet Ertegun

And the separatist terrorist organization, PKK, had easy access to Turkey to, inside Turkey.

— Bulent Ecevit

I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in…

— Noam Chomsky