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“Turkey has put up a fight against the powerful nations of the world. The crusader mentality attacked us abroad. Inside, their lackeys attacked us. We didn't succumb. As a nation, we stood strong.”

World Fighting Strong Nations Powerful Mentality Turkeys Lackeys

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“Turkey has worked alongside its allies from the beginning.”

Allies Turkeys

Author:Ahmet Davutoglu

“Turkey has, of course, the right to protect itself against terrorism, against attacks, but I expect it to be done in a way which is in accordance with the rule of law, democratic values. And that is something I have expressed several times in meetings with the Turkish leaders.”

Done Values Leader Protect Democratic Meetings Terrorism Rule Of Law Turkish

Author:Jens Stoltenberg

“Turkey in general became too involved with what is happening in Egypt and in Syria. Some politicians with neo-Ottoman dreams developed this idea of being a major player in the Middle East, which hasn't gone as expected.”

Ideas Dream Gone Player Middle Involved Politician Majors Happenings East Expected Middle East Syria Egypt Turkeys Ottomans

Author:Elif Safak

“Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country, Balkan country, Caucasian country, neighbor to Africa, Black Sea country, Caspian Sea, all these.”

Country Black Sea Middle Neighbor Eastern Turkeys Asian European Countries Balkans Caucasian Asian Countries Caspian Sea

Author:Ahmet Davutoglu

“Turkey is currently seeking to make itself more independent from Europe and is turning to the east. Is that in our interest? Does it help us bolster Western values in Turkey, or at least here at home? Or are we making ourselves weaker overall? At the same time, Turkey is violating our European moral concepts. It's a difficult conflict to endure, and it leads to necessary disputes and debates.”

Helping Home Values Difficult Interest Moral Conflict Independent Western Endure Debate

Author:Sigmar Gabriel

“Turkey is doing an enormous amount in the refugee question, but it can't continue to pay for everything by itself. That is why we have to talk to Turkey about money.”

Pay Amount Enormous Refugee Turkeys

Author:Martin Schulz

“Turkey is going through an incredible economic, political and social transformation. What is most important is that Turkey has been the owner of this transformation. Ownership has been the key to success.”

Has Beens Important Political Social Economic Keys Transformation Incredibles Owners Ownership Key To Success Turkeys Social Transformation

Author:Ali Babacan

“Turkey is not a part of Europe and will never be part of Europe ... The universal values which are in force in Europe, and which are fundamental values of Christianity, will lose vigor with the entry of a large Islamic country such as Turkey.”

Country Values Force Loses Christianity Europe Universal Fundamentals Islamic Turkeys Entry Vigor

Author:Herman Van Rompuy

“Turkey is saying that it wants to preserve Sunni dominance in Mosul. Obviously, there, the Kurds, the Shia, the Iraqi government have their own agendas.”

Want Government Preserves Agendas Turkeys Dominance Kurds Shia

Author:Patrick Cockburn

“Turkey is taking advantage of the war in order to thoroughly liquidate its internal foes, i.e., the indigenous Christians, without being thereby disturbed by foreign intervention.”

War Christian Order Evil Advantage Internals Foe Turkeys Intervention Indigenous Disturbed Being There Turkish Taking Advantage Armenians Armenia Armenian Genocide

Author:Talaat Pasha

“Turkey is the gateway to the east for Europe, and the gateway to Europe for the east. We have a bridging function that Europe shouldn't underestimate.”

Europe Function East Underestimate Turkeys Gateways

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“Turkey is trying to fight with ISIS in al-Bab, in Syria, in Iraq, and our allies who have been with ISIS are not providing as much support and intelligence on this front. We have a saying Turkish. If your neighbour's house is on fire and you don't help them put it out, that fire will eventually burn your own home.”

Trying Helping Home Fighting House Support Syria Turkish

Author:Egemen Bag?s

“Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.”

World Made Food Cooking Culinary New World Turkeys Best Gift

Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“Turkey is united against terror. People from left and right, men, women, children, different ethnicities, different religious groups are all united, and they're all condemning terrorism. We have been fighting against PKK terrorism. We're fighting against Daesh, ISIS. We're fighting against FETO. We're fighting against the HKPC. So we know how hard dealing with terrorism is.”

People Men Children Different Fighting Religious Terror Terrorism Men Women

Author:Egemen Bag?s

“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.”

Knows Way States Used Strategy Islamic Afghanistan Pakistan Turkeys Taliban Islamic State

Author:Vijay Prashad

“Turkey is viewed as a very modern country and a great place to go and visit and yet Islamic as well. Iran is in some ways like that... with the difference that Iran is probably more influential than Turkey in affairs that are of interest to us.”

Way Wells Country Differences Modern Islamic Iran Turkeys Influential Places To Go

Author:Hooman Majd

“Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy.”

World Economy Trouble Serious Turkeys Envied World Economy

Author:Ali Babacan

“Turkey wants to be treated by the same standards as other countries. If you compare us to some other newly accepted EU members our performance, especially in terms of the economy, is much better.”

Ifs Want Country Term Economy Members Standards Performances Accepted Treated Compare Other Countries Turkeys

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“Turkey was fantastic, Turkey was like mystical and such a special place. Just unique, something that's really hard to describe, such beauty, those mountains and the stone is kind of, eroded? Special erosion which makes what you see just something that seems, it's been made for a movie, it's like something out of fantasy except it's real.”

Kind Made Real Hard Seems Fantasy Special Mountain Unique Stones Fantastic Mystical Turkeys Like Something Special Places Erosion

Author:Violante Placido

“Turkey was fantastic, Turkey was like mystical and such a special place. Just unique, something that's really hard to describe, such beauty.”

Hard Special Unique Fantastic Mystical Turkeys Special Places Erosion

Author:Violante Placido

“Turkey will "inevitably" join the EU in our lifetime unless we vote to leave.”

Vote Lifetime Turkeys

Author:Michael Gove

“Turkey's a valued ally, important ally for NATO, not the least because of its strategic geographic location, bordering Syria and Iraq and close to Russia and the Black Sea.”

Important Black Syria Nato

Author:Jens Stoltenberg

“Turkey's economy is powerful enough to tackle tough times.”

Enough Powerful Economy Tough Turkeys Tough Times

Author:Ali Babacan

“Turkey's great if you're one of those people who can't sleep on planes because when the tryptophan kicks in, it's no problem.”

People Ifs Problem Sleep Planes Kicks No Problem Turkeys Can't Sleep

Author:Mike Pesca

“Turkey's NATO membership is one thing that is forestalling the worst-case scenario - open conflict between Russia and Turkey - because neither Moscow nor the West wants a Russian NATO conflict to erupt.”

Want Cases One Thing Worst Conflict West Russia Turkeys Scenarios Nato Membership Moscow Worst Case Scenario

Author:Peter Kenyon

“Turkey's path toward Europe started back in 1959, almost 50 years ago. But we have been pushed to the side ever since. Despite all the hurdles we will not deviate from our course towards Europe - even by one step.”

Years Has Beens Courses Sides Steps Path Europe Years Ago Despite Turkeys Hurdle Deviate

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“Turkey's relations with its immediate neighbors are improving. They were pretty bad for a long time - with Syria they were abominable, and with Iran they were pretty bad. In both cases Turkey sees potential for trade, especially with Iran, where it gets a lot of natural gas. In good times Iran and Turkey find mutually profitable objects of exchange, but with Syria things have been very bad; Syria doesn't have much money and never will.”

Long Natural Relation Trade Neighbor Gas Good Times Syria Natural Gas

Author:Andrew Mango

“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 who are frightened of the outside world. They don't feel secure; they think that foreigners are trying to harm or even destroy Turkey. But that's not true of the majority of Turks, who want to exercise their skills in a global market.”

People Thinking World Trying Exercise

Author:Andrew Mango

“Turkey's true master is the peasant.”

Masters Turkeys Peasants

Author:Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

“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 regard to Iraq are identical. They both want a stable and rational Iraq that would use its considerable oil wealth in order to improve its own lot. But there doesn't seem to be very much prospect of that at the moment.”

Moments Interest Wealth Rational Law And Order

Author:Andrew Mango

“Turkey, Australia, and Japan are three of my top destinations.”

Three Japan Australia Destination Turkeys

Author:Rick Riordan

“Turkey, Japan do great work because they can keep under control their little personal selfishness, egoism, jealousy, etc. when they get down to work.”

Littles Selfishness Etc Japan Turkeys Great Work Egoism

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“Turkey, unlike chicken, has very elegant characteristics. It has more of a cache than chicken. Turkey is a delicacy, so it should be presented in such a way.”

Way Should Characteristics Chickens Elegant Turkeys Delicacy Scientism Cache

Author:Todd English

“Turkey, with its political intolerance, as I have described it, is prepared to march forward, to break with its taboo about the Armenians, and is making great strides with respect to human rights and freedom of speech so that it can join the European Union. This alone shows how powerful the European idea is.”

Humans Ideas Shows Political Powerful Break Rights Speech Unions Prepared Human Rights March Intolerance Freedom Of Speech Turkeys Taboo European Union Stride Rights And Freedoms Armenians

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.”

Certain Religious Gratitude Bird Property Flesh Peculiar Thanksgiving Turkeys Piety Happy Thanksgiving Funny Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Funny Thanksgiving Greetings Thanksgiving Turkey Turkeys On Thanksgiving

Author:Ambrose Bierce

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“Turkeys are misunderstood. Once I adopted turkeys, I understood this large bird to be a great companion.”

Bird Understood Companion Thanksgiving Adopted Misunderstood Turkeys

Author:Linda Blair

“Turkeys are peacocks that have really let themselves go.”

Humor Funny Turkeys Peacock

Author:Kristen Schaal

“Turkeys are perfect for feeding larger gatherings.”

Perfect Feeding Gathering Turkeys

Author:Pippa Middleton

“Turkeys energy bill due to imports will fall with the increase in use of renewable energy sources. We have no control over the prices of petroleum and natural gas.”

Use Fall Energy Natural Source Increase Bills Dues Gas Turkeys Renewable Energy Imports Natural Gas Energy Sources Petroleum Renewable Energy Sources

Author:Ali Babacan

“Turkeys know their names, come when you call, and are totally affectionate. They're better than teenagers.”

Knows Names Teenager Turkeys Affectionate

Author:Elayne Boosler

“Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen; but birds are not numerous in desart forests; they draw near to the habitations of men, as I have constantly observed in all my travels.”

Men Draws Bird Forests Turkeys Quails

Author:William Bartram

Source: Travels of William Bartram

“Turki al Bin ‘ali does the Islamic equivalent of smashing an electric guitar and kicking over an amplifier every time he steps up to the minbar.”

Islam Islamic State

Author:Graeme Wood

Source: The Way of the Strangers

“Turkish football serves the cause of nationalism, but not of the nation.”

Nations Causes Football Nationalism Turkish

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“Turkish society is divided not only culturally but also politically. You're either conservative or progressive. Islamist or secular. Right wing or left wing. This kind of division can be seen in any society, but in Turkey, the problem is that we are losing any kind of connection between groups and any kind of desire to understand one another. The groups hate each other and they are demolishing all bridges between themselves. So society is divided strictly.”

Kind Problem Desire Hate Losing Conservative Progressive Secular Right Wing Left Wing Turkish

Author:Burhan Sonmez

“Turkish soldiers are very brave. They love their homeland and they do not hesitate to give their lives for it if necessary.”

Ifs Giving Brave Soldier Homeland Turkish

Author:Albert Einstein

“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 it is a short war ... with minimum casualties.”

War Strong Relation Foundation Regions Very Strong Minimum Casualties Turkish Strong Foundation

Author:Abdullah Gul

“Turks and Caicos is one of my favorite places to go. I've been to some really cool places and it started out when I was young by wanting to go to different places.”

Different Young My Favorite Really Cool Different Place Places To Go Favorite Places Cool Places

Author:Dhani Jones

“Turks continued their previous policy. They would not stop committing massive and most awful massacres that even Leng Timur would not dare to do.”

Policy Dare Awful Massive Genocide Massacres Armenian Genocide

Author:Valery Bryusov

“Turks have a dismissive phrase: he works like a clerk. I have turned this insult around: I am proud to say that I work like a clerk.”

Work Hard Work Proud Optimistic Phrases Insult Clerks

Author:Orhan Pamuk

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