Nation Quote by Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“the Armenian genocide of the First World War years, which represented an escalation in intensity, rather than a departure from previous tolerance. Although the…

— Philip Jenkins

Turkey is united against terror. People from left and right, men, women, children, different ethnicities, different religious groups are all united, and they're all…

— Egemen Bag?s

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

“In this sense, Islamism in Turkey was at least partly an unintended consequence of Kemalism. The latter’s zeal against Ottoman tradition impoverished Islamic thought,…

— Mustafa Akyol

And the separatist terrorist organization, PKK, had easy access to Turkey to, inside Turkey.

— Bulent Ecevit

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

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive…

— Noam Chomsky

I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in…

— Noam Chomsky

These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being…

— Orhan Pamuk

“Just after the 11 September 2001 attacks, the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk (who later won the Nobel Prize) observed, in Istanbul, the ordinary and…

— Tzvetan Todorov

Turkey has put up a fight against the powerful nations of the world. The crusader mentality attacked us abroad. Inside, their lackeys attacked us.…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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

— Barack Obama