Able Quote by Noam Chomsky

Turkish soldiers are very brave. They love their homeland and they do not hesitate to give their lives for it if necessary.

— Albert Einstein

Still I have been invited I don't know how many times to Turkey, where Turkey has been following very quickly in the footsteps of…

— Tariq Ramadan

The Turkish people are the friendliest I've ever met.

— Keeley Hawes

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

I am proud to be a Turk, and to write in Turkish about Turkey - and to have been translated into about 40 languages.…

— Orhan Pamuk

So many academics have been imprisoned or expelled from their university posts just because they signed a letter calling for peaceful solution to the…

— Burhan Sonmez

I do not believe so many Turks suspect my activities. The idea that this movement of volunteers is suspected by many Turks arises in…

— Fethullah Gulen

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

Constant pressure by Turkish consulates across the United States, as well as pervasive and continual harassment by the government in Turkey, has so far…

— Enes Kanter

It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these…

— Safak Pavey

I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.

— Orhan Pamuk

There is an attempt to tarnish Turkey by using press freedom when it is in fact measures taken against terrorism, i dispute this. Nowhere…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan