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“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

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

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

In Turkey the religious minorities have more rights than they do in Europe.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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

— Stephen Kinzer

We are not denying that Turkey has a right to defend itself from extremists but some of its actions are not serving any democratic…

— Jalal Talabani

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

Bear in mind how valuable a secular Turkey is for the world.

— Safak Pavey

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

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

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army…

— Orhan Pamuk

For Turkey, they think that if the Muslim Brotherhood take over the rest of the region, they will be very comfortable, they will be…

— Bashar al-Assad