Culture Quote by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Let us assume that the Turks in whose ranks Europeans were fighting as well, even in high positions, would have conquered Vienna and Europe…

— Heinrich Himmler

I think it's horrible that we Turks are always seen under the aspect of Islam first. I am constantly asked about religion, and almost…

— Orhan Pamuk

I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks came and brought Islam.…

— Emir Kusturica

In many places around the world, including Turkey until the 1950s, Muslims didn't have full freedom of religion. Even personal practice was not allowed,…

— Fethullah Gulen

“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

As things change in Turkey people find in religious observance a certain framework of safety, of continuity. This is quite a common phenomenon. In…

— Andrew Mango

“He abolished the Sultanate. Then, the Caliphate, the Islamic equivalent to the Pope. He gave women the right to divorce and introduced civil marriage.…

— Nithin Coca

“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

Islam united all heresies persecuted in Byzantine Empire and synthesised them well into a conseffion that later became a symbol of Arab self-affirmation.

— Anonymous

Turkey has its own interests and historically, Turkey conquered most of the Arab world, and the Arabs had to fight wars of liberation to…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

In Turkey religion not only affects society but is affected by it, which is why Turkish Islam differs from Arab Islam. It's a more…

— Andrew Mango