Politics Quote by Robert Gerwarth

“This was indeed the case in the following two and a half decades, ending in the later 1940s, when the forced expulsion of millions…

— Robert Gerwarth

Mustafa Kemal's government was certainly authoritarian, but he had a saying which is profoundly true, I don't remember the exact words, but what he…

— Bernard Lewis

“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

“The desired modernization and rationalisation of Turkey will never be realised till the day the Modern Turks of Atatürk come to power because only…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“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

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

“Bernard Lewis was most likely unaware of the Turkish leader’s fan base among Nazis and Fascists when he hailed Atatürk for taking, with his…

— Pankaj Mishra

“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

“The CUP’s genocidal wartime policies towards the Armenians and Kemal’s ruthless expulsion of Christian Ottomans featured prominently in the Nazi imagination.”

— Robert Gerwarth

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

“What makes a man great is all the good things he left behind and as for Atatürk, thinking generations and questioning minds are the…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people…

— Orhan Pamuk