Ankara Quote by Mustafa Akyol

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 like this vision that Turkey is successful because it is as successful as the western powers in economic terms. But I do…

— Tariq Ramadan

Turkey has its own interests and historically, Turkey conquered most of the Arab world, and the Arabs had to fight wars of liberation to…

— Samuel P. Huntington

The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

— Ban Ki-moon

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

The Arab Spring is a powerful and compelling response not only to an age of tyranny but also to the remnant chains of imperial…

— Hisham Matar

There is always the risk that a conflagration in the Middle East becomes larger and more dangerous. In this scenario, we discover that the…

— Ian Bremmer

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

“The Arab Spring has been a dismal failure. All indications are that what comes next will be significantly worse than what existed before, in…

— John R. Bradley

Turkey is taking advantage of the war in order to thoroughly liquidate its internal foes, i.e., the indigenous Christians, without being thereby disturbed by…

— Talaat Pasha

The Arab Spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it.

— Kofi Annan

The Arab Spring is a true phenomenon. Embrace Arab Spring; embrace the aspiration for freedom of the people of Egypt, Syria, and Yemen.

— Jamal Khashoggi