Advocating Quote by Tariq Ramadan

As the United States shapes and carries out its policies toward Muslim countries, it should do so with Turkey at its side.

— Stephen Kinzer

Turkey is using the Islamic State in the same way as Pakistan used the Taliban in Afghanistan. You know, that's perhaps Turkey's strategy.

— Vijay Prashad

For Turkey, they think that if the Muslim Brotherhood take over the rest of the region, they will be very comfortable, they will be…

— Bashar al-Assad

I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.

— Orhan Pamuk

Turkey's relationship with the West is a love-hate one. There are people in Turkey who want to open to the outside world and others…

— Andrew Mango

I think a far more important strategic way to deal with the Islamic State would be to bring some of these regional partners and…

— Vijay Prashad

I don't see a bright future for Turkey. It pains me. But I have some hope, I pray for it to be better. It…

— Fethullah Gulen

Turkey is immersed in a profound social and political conflict between secularists, who have been in power since the republic was founded, and an…

— Stephen Kinzer

The United States is facing serious pushback from Turkey, which is not comfortable with the view that the Islamic State is a terrorist organization.

— Vijay Prashad

It is beneficial for Turkish democracy that not all religious conservatives are united under one banner.

— Mustafa Akyol

Those looking from Europe see Turkey as an economic success, whereas others from the Middle East see Turkey as a democratic success.

— Ali Babacan

I probably will not live to see Turkey become an exemplary democracy, but I pray that the downward authoritarian drift can be stopped before…

— Fethullah Gulen