Able Quote by Roger Wicker

Turkish-American relations are based on very strong foundations. Currently, we have a war in the region, which could not be prevented, unfortunately. We hope…

— Abdullah Gul

Turkey can be a bridge to regimes and actions the United States can't reach. Turkey can talk to people the United States can't talk…

— Stephen Kinzer

Turkey, as an ex-imperial power, is all in favor of empires guaranteeing law and order on its borders. Turkey's and America's basic interests with…

— Andrew Mango

With the rise of ISIS, our alliance with Turkey is more important than ever before, the ability to have access, to move resources into…

— Mike Pence

We went into Iraq because Iraq posed a threat to the stability of the region and was engaged in the process of trying to…

— Frank Carlucci

The Erdogan government's first major step outside of the U.S. alliance was during the Bush Administration, when it wouldn't let Washington use Turkey as…

— Elliott Abrams

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

For decades, Turkey was widely viewed as a reliable NATO ally: prickly at times, but safely in America's corner.

— Stephen Kinzer

It was not in our interest to enter Iraq in the first place.

— William Odom

The allies we formerly relied on - the Kurds and the Syrian Democratic Forces - will have little interest in helping us after we…

— Dan Crenshaw

We are not denying that Turkey has a right to defend itself from extremists but some of its actions are not serving any democratic…

— Jalal Talabani

Everything that happens in Iraq affects countries outside.

— Patrick Cockburn