Islam Quote by Andrew Mango

Turkish society is divided not only culturally but also politically. You're either conservative or progressive. Islamist or secular. Right wing or left wing. This…

— Burhan Sonmez

As things change in Turkey people find in religious observance a certain framework of safety, of continuity. This is quite a common phenomenon. In…

— Andrew Mango

Turkey is immersed in a profound social and political conflict between secularists, who have been in power since the republic was founded, and an…

— Stephen Kinzer

“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

“We in the West still seemed to believe the old story of how a man transformed an Islamic empire into a secular republic: Atatürk…

— Suzy Hansen

There was a time when Istanbul was one of the safest cities in the world, because people were afraid of the police. People are…

— Andrew Mango

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

I think it's horrible that we Turks are always seen under the aspect of Islam first. I am constantly asked about religion, and almost…

— Orhan Pamuk

What has been happening in Turkey. The country has been taken over by the present rulers and they have been very, very skillful and…

— Bernard Lewis

In Turkey the religious minorities have more rights than they do in Europe.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I don't like this vision that Turkey is successful because it is as successful as the western powers in economic terms. But I do…

— Tariq Ramadan

Istanbul and the western and southern seaboards are very Europeanized. But then you have the Kurdish areas, in the southeast. That's Turkey's Middle East,…

— Andrew Mango