Civil disobedience Quote by Noam Chomsky

It is tiring to be Turkish. The country is badly polarised, bitterly politicized. Every writer, journalist, poet knows that because of an article, a…

— Elif Safak

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

Of course in Turkey I'm seen as being on the 'Western' side, criticised by the nationalists, criticised by the communitarians as not belonging. Even,…

— Orhan Pamuk

Turkey are the independent people. We are our own nation in this world - a nation of writers, journalists, artists, moviemakers, and academics. We…

— Burhan Sonmez

Each country has its own particular features, its own traditions that find their reflection today and will find it in future. There are such…

— Vladimir Putin

The Ottoman Empire . . . The rulers in Turkey were fortunately so corrupt that they left people alone pretty much - were mostly…

— Noam Chomsky

When considering the Islamic world, Turkey is the best example of a country where democracy irreversibly gained a foothold despite religious and cultural traditions…

— Garry Kasparov

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

Turkey, with its political intolerance, as I have described it, is prepared to march forward, to break with its taboo about the Armenians, and…

— Orhan Pamuk

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 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