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“When our imagination comes into coherence with our heart, compassion can guide our vision; we are able to consider not only ourselves, but the highest good for all. -Bodhi Simpson”

Book:The Girl Who Cried for the Earth: A Story of Hope, Healing & Possibilities

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“What is important for Islamic states is the spreading of fundamentalism. In order to survive inside Iran, they [the Mullahs] need to export their ideas. Our friends the Saudis finance it too. Their regime is not compatible with the modern era, but they have activists in Turkey who are trying to impose their ideology.”

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Author:Fevzi Türkeri

“The more we offer the villagers, the more they want. And if I can give it, I will. The terrorists had the support of the local people [Kurds], but it was at gunpoint. In the past the terrorists would burn the government bulldozers. Now people see that if you don't have bulldozers, you'll get no road.”

Army Terrorist Turkish Turk Turkic Kurd

Author:General Ergin Saygun

“I once tried to take the army unit here [Kurdish village] back to the barracks, but the village chief came and said he would resign if I did. Soldiers [Turks] here help with irrigation, painting walls, building carpet workshops, and so on. When there's an army unit here, the villagers even have a doctor and free medicine.”

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Author:General Ergin Saygun

“Avoid the attitude 'these people (locals) don't understand anything.' Trying to base one's authority on pressure and fear may be effective in the short term, but this is deceptive. Don't forget that to be smiling and kind is not the same as being weak and undisciplined.”

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Author:Colonel Dağ

“I like Western values. Since the time we were in Central Asia, the momentum of Turks has been towards the West. But this shouldn't be interpreted as worship of, or dependence on the West.”

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Author:Hilmi Özkök

“We (Turkish soldiers) were met by just a few men on horseback in Caucasian dress, like fairy-tale soldiers with silver-plated sabres in their belts. Our small procession seemed to me to be the harbinger of a great liberation, the awakening of the vast land of Turan. It was a new Ergenekon.”

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Author:Şevket Süreyya Aydemir

“Our duty would be to create, in the place of the outdated (Ottoman) Empire, a new national entity in harmony with its historic and linguistic unity and its desires.”

Unity Turkish Turk Turkic Ottoman Turan

Author:Şevket Süreyya Aydemir

“I don’t feel like a traveler now,” Vasya admitted, low, to Morozko . “Neither do travelers, often enough,” the frost-demon returned.”

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Book:The Girl in the Tower

Source: The Girl in the Tower

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