Currents Quote by Bashar al-Assad

Tayyip Erdogan wants to go beyond George W. Bush by making critical journalism and critics in the academy illegal. What will be the difference…

— Tariq Ali

The situation in Turkey is extremely troubling. A panic-stricken regime, desperate to divide the Kurdish population from non-Kurds because it feared the rise of…

— Tariq Ali

President Erdogan is aiming Turkey at a Sharia nation. That’s where he wants to go. He is a Sharia law, full-fledged, one percent Islamist.

— Rush Limbaugh

What we are seeing in Turkey is a non-uniformed authoritarian regime led by a politician, Tayyip Erdogan, who has allowed power to go to…

— Tariq Ali

Erdogan's persecution of his people is not simply a domestic matter. The ongoing pursuit of civil society, journalists, academics and Kurds in Turkey is…

— Fethullah Gulen

The Turkish government is very famous for hunting down those who oppose Erdogan... I just didn't really want to risk my life by going…

— Enes Kanter

Our politics is very masculine, very aggressive, and it's very polarizing. And the pace of this development has increased in recent years. Erdogan is,…

— Elif Safak

There is a heated debate in Turkey these days over whether the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is furthering democracy or rolling…

— Mustafa Akyol

There are people who say that "Gül can't be my president". These people don't have good manners for and they should renounce their Turkish…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Let's be realistic, every terrorist came to Syria, he came through Turkey with the support of [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan. So, fighting those terrorists is…

— Bashar al-Assad

There might be many similarities between Erdogan and Putin. We can see that in the current developments, unfortunately. But Viktor Orban seriously does not…

— Jaroslaw Kaczynski

“Today Hindu revivalists, pious Muslims, Japanese nationalists and Chinese communists may declare their adherence to very different values and goals, but they have all…

— Yuval Noah Harari