Country Quote by Orhan Pamuk

I don't see a bright future for Turkey. It pains me. But I have some hope, I pray for it to be better. It…

— Fethullah Gulen

Europe will get a stable and prosperous Turkey.

— Olli Rehn

Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.

— William Hague

Those looking from Europe see Turkey as an economic success, whereas others from the Middle East see Turkey as a democratic success.

— Ali Babacan

Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue…

— Orhan Pamuk

In Western Europe, Turkey is regarded as uncivilized, so they can't come in into the European Union until they're civilized. I think it's the…

— Noam Chomsky

Turkey will "inevitably" join the EU in our lifetime unless we vote to leave.

— Michael Gove

I probably will not live to see Turkey become an exemplary democracy, but I pray that the downward authoritarian drift can be stopped before…

— Fethullah Gulen

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

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

Turkey has a long, proud democratic tradition.

— Morgan Ortagus

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