Ethnicity Quote by Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I have had it up to here with the prosecutions, the government's attitude, the judiciary, the media's stance and the majority of Turks who…

— Osman Baydemir

It is legitimate for the Turks to try to defend themselves.

— Barack Obama

“Is this a Kurdish thing?’ ‘What?’ ‘Being deliberately contradictory?”

— Ian McDonald

We've seen in Europe after the recent terrorist attacks a certain retrogression in human rights. It depends on how threatened the Turks feel. For…

— Andrew Mango

Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a…

— Orhan Pamuk

The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.

— Jalal Talabani

“We used to be brothers and sisters here. Kurdish, did not know he was. Turkmenians, Germans, they all existed here but never were proud…

— Orhan Pamuk

I don't believe that human ethnic groups are equal, and I believe that's fairly easy to prove.

— Jim Goad

In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

The Kurds will not be allowed to have an independent country because Turkey wouldn't stand for it; they have their own Kurdish population.

— Molly Ivins

“One of the most notorious slogans of ultra-nationalism in Turkey has been ‘Either love it or leave it!’ It is meant to block all…

— Elif Shafak