Quote by Graham E. Fuller

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

Foreign journalists writing about Turkey like to focus on the most fundamental divide in Turkish society: the rift between religious conservatives and secularists.

— Mustafa Akyol

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

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

— Mustafa Akyol

“In this sense, Islamism in Turkey was at least partly an unintended consequence of Kemalism. The latter’s zeal against Ottoman tradition impoverished Islamic thought,…

— Mustafa Akyol

In Turkey religion not only affects society but is affected by it, which is why Turkish Islam differs from Arab Islam. It's a more…

— Andrew Mango

“One of the most notorious slogans of ultra-nationalism in Turkey has been ‘Either love it or leave it!’ It is meant to block all…

— Elif Shafak

The Muslim Brotherhood is much more hardline than Turkish Islamists.

— Richard Engel

“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

In recent years the military has gradually been eased out of political life in Turkey. The military budget is now subject to much more…

— Andrew Mango

I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is…

— Orhan Pamuk

“The desired modernization and rationalisation of Turkey will never be realised till the day the Modern Turks of Atatürk come to power because only…

— Mehmet Murat ildan