“In particular, recently Belgium has banned the sale of a cellphone to a 7-year-old. Turkey has banned ads and advertising to children. So has France for children under 12. India has bans in certain areas. In Bangalore, you cannot sell a cellphone to someone younger than 16. So in different parts of the world, they've taken different steps.” WorldYearsChildrenDifferentCertainStepsTakenParticularAreasIndiaSellsAdvertisingFranceAdsTurkeysBansBannedBelgiumCellphoneBangalore Author:Devra Davis
“We would also lean on Turkey to ensure that it closes its border to the movement of jihadi groups.” GroupsMovementBordersTurkeys Author:Jill Stein
“If I were inclined to worry that the United States was veering in a dangerously theocratic direction, here's a short list of things I wouldn't fret about: a reality television program depicting the lives of ordinary Americans; a clause in a contract between parties to a business transaction agreeing that any disputes that arise between them be resolved in compliance with shared religious principles; halal soup; halal turkeys on the Thanksgiving table.” IfsStatesRealityReligiousUnitedPartyPrinciplesWorryUnited StatesTelevisionOrdinaryProgramTablesListsAriseContractsSoupDisputesTurkeysTransactionsComplianceClausesReality TelevisionHalal Author:Sarah Posner
“Turkey has its own interests and historically, Turkey conquered most of the Arab world, and the Arabs had to fight wars of liberation to free themselves from the Turks. That's in the past and that doesn't necessarily shape what is going on but it's there and it's there in people's memories.” PeopleWorldWarPastFightingInterestMemoriesShapesLiberationTurkeysArab World Author:Samuel P. Huntington
“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.” WantGovernmentPreservesAgendasTurkeysDominanceKurdsShia Author:Patrick Cockburn
“The Saudi, Arabian ruling class, for example, have rights because they are performing a service for Western power, ensuring that oil profits go to the West and not to the regional population. The local gendarmes like Israel, Turkey and so on have rights, at least in their ruling groups. Others do not.” ClassRightsGroupsExampleWestWesternPopulationProfitIsraelOilLocalsPerformingRulingTurkeysSaudisArabian Author:Noam Chomsky
“I know of only one country, at least to my knowledge, which has a dissident culture where leading figures, I mean, the most famous writers, journalists, academics and so on, are not only critical of state policy, but are constantly carrying out civil disobedience and risking imprisonment and often being imprisoned, standing up for people's rights. That's Turkey.” PeopleKnowsMeanCountryStatesCultureRightsFiguresPolicyStandingCriticalJournalistTurkeysDisobedienceCivil DisobedienceImprisonmentDissidentsFamous Writers Author:Noam Chomsky
“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.” IfsThinkingWayWould BeLevelsAchieveCivilizationAchievementEuropeUnionsWesternCivilizedTurkeysEuropean UnionTurkishWestern EuropeUncivilized Author:Noam Chomsky
“Every year I volunteer at a hospital on Thanksgiving, deep-frying turkeys in the children's burn unit. I do it just to see the looks on their little "faces."” YearsLooksChildrenLittlesFacesHospitalsUnitsVolunteerTurkeysFrying Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“I did get to shadow some amazing brain surgeons, a female brain surgeon in Toronto, another surgeon in London. And then we had a surgeon onset [of Doctor Strange] every day. So and he taught me to do sutures and was practicing on turkey breasts, raw turkey breasts.” BrainTaughtStrangeShadowFemaleDoctorsLondonBreastsTurkeysSurgeonsTorontoBrain Surgeons Author:Rachel McAdams
“We've got a lot of the meal left to go. Should we move on from the turkey?” ShouldMovingLeftMealsTurkeys Author:Ari Shapiro
“I'm just sitting around thinking about turkey.” ThinkingSittingTurkeysSitting Around Author:Alton Brown
“The turkey - my number one thing that people don't get is take that sucker out of the refrigerator about three hours before you plan on cooking it.” PeopleThreeHoursNumbersPlansOne ThingCookingTurkeysSuckerRefrigerators Author:Alton Brown
“If I took my turkey out of the refrigerator and, like, threw it in a dumpster or drug it down the street in New York for a while [it will make people sick].” PeopleIfsStreetsNew YorkDrugSickTurkeysRefrigeratorsDumpsters Author:Alton Brown
“If tomorrow morning Brussels should decide to let Turkey in, Italians wouldn't be free to oppose it, neither in Parliament nor through a referendum. A” IfsShouldMorningTomorrowParliamentTurkeysReferendumsBrusselsTomorrow Morning Author:Matteo Salvini
“America's story is largely an immigrant story. That hasn't changed since the Pilgrims ate their first turkey some four hundred years ago, and they were the original boat people.” PeopleYearsFirstsStoriesAmericaFourChangedHundredYears AgoOriginalsBoatImmigrantsTurkeysPilgrim Author:Andrew Lam
“In Turkey also, for a long time, the military was the decisive force but in the past 10 years they have backed off somewhat and the civilian government has gained more independence and autonomy even to shake up the military command. In fact, it even arrested several high-ranking officers [for interfering in governmental affairs]. Maybe Pakistan can move in a similar direction.” YearsLongFactsGovernmentPastMovingForceMilitaryLong TimeIndependenceAffairCommandShakesOfficersInterferePakistanAutonomyTurkeysCiviliansArrestedRankingMilitary Command Author:Noam Chomsky
“For Turkey, they think that if the Muslim Brotherhood take over the rest of the region, they will be very comfortable, they will be very happy, they will make sure that their political future is guaranteed.” IfsThinkingPoliticalComfortableRegionsBrotherhoodVery HappyTurkeysMuslim Brotherhood Author:Bashar al-Assad
“Two years and a half and Syria is still withstanding against the United States, the West, Saudi Arabia, the richest countries in this area, including Turkey, and, taking into consideration what your question implies, that even the big part or the bigger part of the Syrian population is against me, how can I withstand till today ? Am I the superhuman or Superman, which is not the case !” YearsStillsTwoCountryStatesBigsTodayUnitedHalfCasesUnited StatesAreasBiggerWestIncludingPopulationConsiderationTwo YearsSyriaTurkeysArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisSuperhumanWithstanding Author:Bashar al-Assad
“It's very simple ; once the Western countries stop supporting those terrorists and making pressure on their puppet countries and client states like Saudi Arabia and Turkey and others, you'll have no problem in Syria. It will be solved easily.” CountryStatesProblemSimplePressureWesternTerroristClientsSyriaNo ProblemTurkeysPuppetsArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudis Author:Bashar al-Assad
“Two races we've lost which I'm genuinely upset about were India and Turkey.” TwoLostRaceIndiaUpsetTurkeys Author:Bernie Ecclestone
“All evidence suggests that Turkey has allowed ISIS fighters, when they've been injured, to return into Turkey and to get treated in Turkey's hospitals.” ReturnEvidenceTreatedFighterHospitalsTurkeysIsisInjured Author:Vijay Prashad
“I think a far more important strategic way to deal with the Islamic State would be to bring some of these regional partners and explain to them that Turkey's own contradictory foreign policy has to end. I mean, if United States is serious, it has leverage over Turkey. And apparently it has not been able to move Turkey sufficiently.” IfsThinkingWayMeanImportantEndsStatesWould BeAbleMovingUnitedDealsUnited StatesPolicySeriousPartnersIslamicForeign PolicyTurkeysContradictoryStrategicIslamic State Author:Vijay Prashad
“The United States is facing serious pushback from Turkey, which is not comfortable with the view that the Islamic State is a terrorist organization.” StatesUnitedViewsUnited StatesSeriousComfortableOrganizationTerroristIslamicTurkeysIslamic State Author:Vijay Prashad
“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.” KnowsWayStatesUsedStrategyIslamicAfghanistanPakistanTurkeysTalibanIslamic State Author:Vijay Prashad
“Mr. Obama needs to make a phone call to Ankara and have a serious conversation about why the current government in Turkey isn't going to seal its border, why it doesn't take a stronger position against the Islamic State.” NeedsStatesGovernmentPositionSeriousConversationStrongerPhonesCurrentsBordersIslamicTurkeysSealsPhone CallsIslamic StateAnkara Author:Vijay Prashad
“I have underscored my commitment to dialogue and cooperation with our neighboring Turkey, a country that plays an important role for the future of our region. But I still stress that the promotion of this important relations can only take place on the basis of mutual respect without threats of war and questioning of sovereign rights.” StillsImportantWarCountryPlayRolesRightsCommitmentBasesStressRelationThreatDialogueRegionsMutualCooperationQuestioningSovereignTurkeysPromotionMutual Respect Author:Alexis Tsipras
“I'm an expert cook when it comes to preparing the quail, ducks, geese and wild turkeys that I hunt on the farm.” CooksExpertsFarmsDucksPreparingHuntsTurkeysGeeseQuails Author:Jimmy Carter
“I mean, all of these things that [Bashar Assad] has done, there's no way even if President Obama wanted to just play along that you could actually achieve peace, because there are 65 million Sunni in between Baghdad and the border of Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, who will never, ever again accept Assad as a member - as a legitimate leader.” IfsWayMeanDonePlayWantedPresidentLeaderAcceptingMillionsAchieveMembersIraqBordersPresident ObamaSyriaTurkeysBaghdadAssad Author:John F. Kerry
“Three-quarters of [Bashar Assad] country is displaced. It's in Jordan, it's in Lebanon, it's in Turkey, and in the desert. The threat is that those people in the desert and others could become the next acolytes of ISIL if we don't find a way to join together to go after ISIL.” PeopleIfsWayCountryTogetherThreeNextThreatDesertQuartersTurkeysJordanLebanonAssadIsil Author:John F. Kerry
“I met with many of - a number of [Syrian] refugees in Berlin the other day, and I was struck by how educated, intelligent, and patriotic they are. They want to go back. They love their country. And there are so many of them still in Jordan and in refugee camps in Lebanon and in Turkey, that if you could create the climate within which they could begin to come back, I believe there is such a history of secularism within Syria, even tolerance within Syria, that if we can deal with ISIL, yes. That's the key. And with ISIL there, not a chance.” IfsWantBelieveStillsCountryI BelieveChanceDealsNumbersKeysMetsIntelligentClimateToleranceEducatedPatrioticCampsSyriaRefugeeTurkeysSecularismBerlinJordanLebanonIsilRefugee CampsSyrian Refugees Author:John F. Kerry
“When considering the Islamic world, Turkey is the best example of a country where democracy irreversibly gained a foothold despite religious and cultural traditions still respected today. With some reservation, this can be said about Pakistan, too, where we can observe dynamic political processes going on [and] governments change as a result of elections. In my opinion, it is up to the ruling elite to initiate cardinal changes.” WorldSaidStillsCountryGovernmentTodayPoliticalProcessReligiousResultsOpinionDemocracyExampleTraditionElectionDespiteIslamicElitesConsideringPakistanRulingTurkeysCardinalsReservationsInitiate Author:Garry Kasparov
“The Thanksgiving meal should not be treated as a grad school exam or an Olympic dive. Whatever you cook will be good enough - unless you make that Twinkie turkey stuffing we're suddenly hearing too much about.” ShouldEnoughSchoolToo MuchHearingBe GoodTreatedCooksMealsGood EnoughTurkeysExamGradGrad School Author:Mary Schmich
“Thanksgiving without tension is like a Thanksgiving without turkey. It can be done, but it is not the norm.” DoneTensionNormTurkeys Author:Mary Schmich
“Germany and Turkey are two countries that need each other. As political leaders we will leave our offices one day, but our people will remain and have to get along with each other. So we shouldnÂ’t give them negative messages.” PeopleNeedsGivingTwoCountryPoliticalLeaderOne DayOfficeMessagesNegativeGermanyTurkeysPolitical LeadersTwo Countries Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan
“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.” EuropeFunctionEastUnderestimateTurkeysGateways 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.” YearsHas BeensCoursesSidesStepsPathEuropeYears AgoDespiteTurkeysHurdleDeviate Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan
“70 percent of TurkeyÂ’s 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.” IfsWantBelieveStillsTodayAsksAcceptingCitizensMembersPercentEuropeTurkeys Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan
“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.” IfsWantCountryTermEconomyMembersStandardsPerformancesAcceptedTreatedCompareOther CountriesTurkeys Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan
“If the EU doesnÂ’'t want Turkey, they should say it now and clearly. If we are not wanted, then both sides donÂ’t need to waste their time with negotiations.” IfsWantNeedsShouldWantedSidesWasteBoth SidesNegotiationTurkeys 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.” IfsShouldHomeChristianCivilizationEuropeClubsFormerTurkeysAlliances Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan
“[The Dutch] people want [refugees to be safe] but don't come here. And don't forget, people are very angry about that, that most of the people who came to Holland were younger people, often young men who crossed before coming to Holland six of seven safe countries in order to be in Holland. If they just wanted to be safe, they would have stopped at Turkey or maybe if you find Turkey unsafe, in Greece.” PeopleIfsMenWantCountryWantedYoungOrderForgetSafeSixAngrySevenYoung ManRefugeeTurkeysGreeceDutchHollandUnsafe Author:Geert Wilders
“The army is making good advancement on daily basis against the terrorists. Of course, they still have the support of Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and some Western countries including the United States, but the only option that we have in that regard is to win.” StillsCountryStatesCoursesWinningUnitedUnited StatesSupportBasesArmyRegardWesternIncludingTerroristTurkeysAdvancementArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisQatar Author:Bashar al-Assad
“Let's be realistic, every terrorist came to Syria, he came through Turkey with the support of [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan. So, fighting those terrorists is like fighting the army of Erdogan, not the Turkish army, the army of Erdogan.” FightingSupportArmyTerroristRealisticSyriaTurkeysTurkishErdogan Author:Bashar al-Assad
“Whether [Turkey] is a NATO country or not, it doesn't have the right to invade any other country according to the international law or to any other moral value.” CountryLawValuesMoralInternationalOther CountriesTurkeysNatoInternational LawMoral Values Author:Bashar al-Assad
“We are engaging in the diplomatic efforts that are required within Iraq among the Shia, the Sunni and the Kurd, among friends, like Egypt, and Turkey and Saudi Arabia, but also enemies like Iran and Syria. They have to have buy-in into that process.” ProcessEffortEnemyIraqIranSyriaEgyptEngagingTurkeysArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisDiplomaticKurdsShia Author:Barack Obama
“Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world.” WorldYearsLastsHouseLeadershipApproachRemainsDuesAdministrationResolutionGenocideLast YearSignalsTurkeysObjectionsTurkishArmeniansArmenian Genocide Author:Patrick J. Kennedy
“If cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys go into slaughterhouses alive and come out chopped up into hundreds of pieces, how could anyone claim that animals aren't being mistreated, abused, tortured, terrorized and savagely murdered in these places? How in the world could SLAUGHTERING BILLIONS of INNOCENTS be done with love, humanity and concern?” IfsWorldDoneHumanityAnimalPiecesAliveConcernClaimsBillionsChickensCowsPigsTurkeysSlaughterhousesMistreatedDone With Love Author:Gary Yourofsky
“The Indian government has managed to turn the concept of nonviolence on its head. Nonviolent resistance and nonviolent governance. Unlike, say, China or Turkey or Indonesia, India doesn't mow down its people. It doesn't kill people who are refusing to move. It just waits it out. It continues to do what it has to do and ignores the consequences.” PeopleGovernmentMovingTurnsWaitingConceptsConsequenceIndiaChinaResistanceIndianNonviolenceTurkeysGovernanceIndonesiaNonviolent Resistance Author:Arundhati Roy
“Every night I get many letters, and after every talk I get many questions from people who say, "I want to change things. What can I do?" I never hear these questions from peasants in southern Colombia or Kurds in southeastern Turkey under miserable repression or anybody who is suffering. They don't ask what they can do; they tell you what they're doing.” PeopleWantNightSufferingAsksCan DoLettersMiserableSouthernEvery NightTurkeysPeasantsRepressionColombiaKurds Author:Noam Chomsky