Defeated Quote by Burhan Ghalioun

Turkey is using the Islamic State in the same way as Pakistan used the Taliban in Afghanistan. You know, that's perhaps Turkey's strategy.

— Vijay Prashad

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

The United States is facing serious pushback from Turkey, which is not comfortable with the view that the Islamic State is a terrorist organization.

— Vijay Prashad

As the United States shapes and carries out its policies toward Muslim countries, it should do so with Turkey at its side.

— Stephen Kinzer

Being Muslim is more than just praying an fasting, you must be good from the heart as well and never cheat people.

— Anonymous

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

“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

It is beneficial for Turkish democracy that not all religious conservatives are united under one banner.

— Mustafa Akyol

I want to see the U.S become an Islamic nation.

— Ibrahim Hooper

All talk on Islamic States is just an empty dream. No man in his right sense would accept a nation which bases its political…

— Tunku Abdul Rahman

The fact that this organisation is called the Islamic State reveals something even deeper. In fact, it implies that every single Islamist party in…

— Tariq Ramadan

I think a far more important strategic way to deal with the Islamic State would be to bring some of these regional partners and…

— Vijay Prashad