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“I think perhaps Pakistan can take the lead. Perhaps Turkey can as well, being part of Europe. But someone has to start talking about why the Muslim world has become a boiling pot and look beyond these cartoons to what the ideological reasons are for this divide.”

Thinking World Wells Looks Reason Talking Europe Well Being Pot Divides Cartoon Pakistan Turkeys Ideological Boiling Muslim World

Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“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

“We are ready to build large underground gas storages in Turkey, to participate in the privatization of Turkey's gas-distribution networks, to use the existing and participate in the construction of new pipelines in order to supply our energy resources through Turkey to third countries, including in southern Europe”

Country Use Order Energy Ready Resources Europe Thirds Including Gas Southern Construction Participation Distribution Turkeys Storage Pipeline Privatization

Author:Vladimir Putin

“A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.”

People World Kind Stills Problem Attention Europe Discrimination Genocide Turkeys Segregation Turkish Rwanda

Author:Boutros Boutros-Ghali

“I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a diving-bell.”

Littles Enough Wish Difficult Europe Russia Bells Turkeys Diving

Book:The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress

Source: The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress

“Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.”

Long Would Be Term Century Europe Errors Long Term Turkeys

Author:William Hague

“There is an attempt to tarnish Turkey by using press freedom when it is in fact measures taken against terrorism, i dispute this. Nowhere in Europe or in other countries is there a media that is as free as the press in Turkey.”

Country Facts Freedom Taken Media Europe Presses Terrorism Other Countries Disputes Turkeys Freedom Of The Press

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“So in Europe, we had empires. Everyone had them - France and Spain and Britain and Turkey! The Ottoman Empire, full of furniture for some reason. And the Austro-Hungarian Empire, famous for f-k all! Yes, all they did was slowly collapse like a flan in a cupboard.”

Reason Europe France Britain Empires Collapse Spain Furniture Turkeys Cupboards Hungarians Ottomans Ottoman Empire

Author:Eddie Izzard

“If Turkey become a member of the EU, of course Turks would lose a part of this identity, just as Europe would lose a part of its own. It would also be a different Europe then. Accepting Turkey into the EU is an ambitious political endeavor of historical proportions. Europe would become a strong, multi-religious unit.”

Ifs Different Political Courses Strong Loses Religious Accepting Identity Members Europe Historical Proportion Endeavor Ambitious Units Turkeys

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“The public negotiations and secret intrigues of the English (Jews) and the French (Jews) have been employed for centuries in every court and country in Europe. Look back to the history of Spain, Holland, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Prussia, Italy and Turkey for the last hundred years...all the power of Europe will be continually maneuvering with us to work us into the real or imaginary balance of power.”

“In Turkey the religious minorities have more rights than they do in Europe.”

Religious Rights Europe Minorities Turkeys

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“Besides, many Islamic movements will change as soon as they gain political responsibility. I'm not at all pessimistic in this regard. Just think of Turkey, where the Islamists are now behaving like a sort of Christian Democratic party in Europe.”

Thinking Christian Political Party Responsibility Movement Gains Europe Regard Democratic Islamic Turkeys Democratic Party Pessimistic Islamists Political Responsibility

Author:Zalmay Khalilzad

“Turkey has a very young, dynamic, curious population. In Europe, Facebook and Twitter are mostly about sharing daily experiences while for Turkish people, social networks are political platforms.”

People Young Political Social Europe Population Curious Platforms Turkeys Social Network Turkish Daily Experience

Author:Elif Safak

“If the Schengen system (of border-free travel) is destroyed, Europe will be seriously endangered politically and economically. That is why we Europeans have to invest billions in Turkey, Libya, Jordan and other countries in the region as quickly as possible everybody as much as they can.”

Ifs Country Europe Billions Destroyed Borders Regions Other Countries Turkeys Jordan Libya

Author:Wolfgang Schauble

“Well the most likely emerging countries are Japan, Turkey, and Poland. So I would say Eastern Europe, the Middle East and a maritime war by Japan with the United States enjoying its own pleasures.”

Wells War Country States Enjoy Pleasure United United States Middle Europe East Japan Middle East Eastern Turkeys Emerging Poland Eastern Europe Maritime

Author:George Friedman

“Even Boris Johnson doesn't think there's going to be a United States of Europe. And I think there's a real question here that you're being asked to make a decision that's irreversible we cant change it, we wake up on Friday and we don't like it, and we're being sold it on a lie because they lied about the cost of Europe, they lied about Turkey's entrance to Europe, they lied about the European army because we've got a veto for that they put that in their leaflets and they've lied about this here tonight too and its not good enough you deserve the truth you deserve the truth.”

“Without the Turkey agreement, tens of thousands of refugees would still be stuck in Greece. The Commission presented proposals for securing Europe's external borders early on, but they languished in the Council for months. As you can see, the Commission isn't asleep. Oftentimes it has to wake up the others.”

Stills Months Europe Wake Up Stuck Borders Agreement Refugee Council Turkeys Greece Proposal

Author:Jean-Claude Juncker

“Not possessing definite geographical boundaries, at least in the East - its distinction from Asia is problematic, considering that two large countries, Russia and Turkey, stretch between the two continents - , Europe, from the beginning, has defined itself from the perspective of the constitutive specificity of its philosophical principles: the freedom of the Greek cities as opposed to the Asian despotic regimes. Although these principles were often contradicted and reversed into their opposite, the idea of Europe is inseparable from them.”

“In Western Europe, Turkey is regarded as uncivilized, so they can't come in into the European Union until they're civilized. I think it's the other way around. If you could achieve the level of civilization of, say, Turkish intelectuals, it would be quite an achievement.”

Ifs Thinking Way Would Be Levels Achieve Civilization Achievement Europe Unions Western Civilized Turkeys European Union Turkish Western Europe Uncivilized

Author:Noam Chomsky

“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'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

“70 percent of Turkeys citizens favored the EU; today it is only 50 percent. If you ask if they want Turkey to become an EU member, 60 to 65 percent still say yes. But if you ask: Do you believe Europe will accept Turkey, 60 percent say no.”

Ifs Want Believe Stills Today Asks Accepting Citizens Members Percent Europe Turkeys

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“Is Europe a home for an alliance of civilizations or is it a Christian club? If the former is true, then Turkey should be part of it.”

Ifs Should Home Christian Civilization Europe Clubs Former Turkeys Alliances

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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

Country Europe Democratic Turkeys Prosperous Democratic Country

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.”

Ifs Want Long Country Might Long Time Europe Turkeys European Countries

Author:Salman Rushdie

“[I]t seems that the Cannibals of Europe are going to eat one another again. A war between Russia and Turkey is like the battle of the kite and snake; whichever destroys the other, leaves a destroyer the less for the world.”

World War Seems Policy Battle Europe Russia Foreign Policy Snakes Turkeys Destroyers Kites Cannibal

Book:Biographical sketches of distinguished American naval heroes in the war of the revolution, between the American Republic and the Kingdom of Great Britain: comprising sketches of Com. Nicholas Biddle, Com. John Paul Jones, Com. Edward Preble, and Com. Alexander Murray. With incidental allusions to other distinguished characters ...

Source: Biographical sketches of distinguished American naval heroes in the war of the revolution, between the American Republic and the Kingdom of Great Britain: comprising sketches of Com. Nicholas Biddle, Com. John Paul Jones, Com. Edward Preble, and Com. Alexander Murray. With incidental allusions to other distinguished characters ...