Country Quote by Hooman Majd

Turkey is viewed as a very modern country and a great place to go and visit and yet Islamic as well. Iran is in…

— Hooman Majd

Turkey's relations with its immediate neighbors are improving. They were pretty bad for a long time - with Syria they were abominable, and with…

— Andrew Mango

Turkey knows the importance of its ties with Israel; it knows it's in the same moderate camp with Israel, the moderate Palestinians and other…

— Tzipi Livni

Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned…

— Fareed Zakaria

There's an interesting book by the former Brazilian ambassador Celso Amorim. In 2010, he initiated an effort along with Turkey to settle the whole…

— Noam Chomsky

Turkey, as an ex-imperial power, is all in favor of empires guaranteeing law and order on its borders. Turkey's and America's basic interests with…

— Andrew Mango

Turkey is a sovereign state, just like the U.S. We might go to different directions, in terms of our impressions and ideas, but we'll…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy.

— Ali Babacan

Iran is the latest expression of a deep, ancient, powerful culture that's different than ours. And we don't know how it's going to play…

— Barack Obama

Many analysts compare Turkey with countries in the Middle East, but I think we need to compare it with Russia. Both countries come from…

— Elif Safak

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

— Stephen Kinzer

That is one of the reasons why we advocate for good relations between the two countries. Turkey understands the needs of the region.

— Igor Luksic