Democracy Quote by Elif Safak

I probably will not live to see Turkey become an exemplary democracy, but I pray that the downward authoritarian drift can be stopped before…

— Fethullah Gulen

Turkey is a warning: democracy is precious but fragile. It underlines how rights and freedoms are often won at great cost and sacrifice but…

— Owen Jones

Democracy is to have different ideas, even extreme ones. In democracy there is space for all of them and bridges to connect them. In…

— Burhan Sonmez

In a normal democracy, you protect the individual from the excessive power of the state. In Turkey, power elites try to protect the state…

— Elif Safak

Turkey is a diverse country... I think that democracy is the ideal system for a country with a social foundation such as this. My…

— Fethullah Gulen

Mustafa Kemal's government was certainly authoritarian, but he had a saying which is profoundly true, I don't remember the exact words, but what he…

— Bernard Lewis

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

Turkey's regime is fast degenerating into outright dictatorship, emboldened by the imminent ascent of Donald Trump to the most powerful position on Earth.

— Owen Jones

I think that the growing government control of the press is very clear. Turkey is still not a dictatorship, there is still some freedom…

— Bernard Lewis

With regard to Turkey, I have been to Ankara. Turkey is a democracy. We certainly, we certainly, in the future, ought to encourage our…

— Mike Pence

Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue…

— Orhan Pamuk

It's a bit questionable whether Turkey is a model country or not, since our government is supporting ISIS in Syria, since there are legislations…

— Burhan Sonmez