Turkish Quotes - Page 5

• America is governed by rules of law, and those are not ones that the President of the United States or anybody else can just set aside for the sake of expediency Even when we are deeply supportive of Turkish democracy, and even when we care deeply about any attempts to overthrow their government or any other illegal actions, we've got to go through a legal process.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Law, America

  Barack Obama's Remarks with President Pena Nieto of Mexico in Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 22, 2016.

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• The Turkish road is not my model because I am critical of the way you are dealing with freedom of expression, of how you are dealing with the treatment of minorities, and your economic vision.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Expression, Vision, Minorities

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• here are problems with the Turkish products inside Russia and the tourism going down. People are worried about that. But the really big economic weapons, oil and especially natural gas, those have not been brought into play yet - mostly in the form of threat so far. So basically the view from here is that, yeah, things are getting bad, but they could still get much, much worse.

  Peter Kenyon

  Russia, Views, Play

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I often speak with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. When I speak with the Turkish president, I defend European positions. That is how we European partners must do things.

  Emmanuel Macron

  President, Speak

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Men, not only in Turkish society but everywhere, have been the bosses in terms of creation. If you look at art history, women were the objects. The fact that it's not been made by women means that the subjects are not women.

  Deniz Gamze Erguven

  Art, Mean, Men

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Almost half of the Turkish population believes it is not legitimate to criticize the government. Interestingly, this correlates with the number of supporters of Erdogan's government.

  Elif Safak

  Believe, Government, Numbers

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I am proud to be a Turk, and to write in Turkish about Turkey - and to have been translated into about 40 languages. But I don't want to politicize things by dramatizing them.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Writing, Turkeys, Want

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• I see two opposite tendencies in Turkish society: people feel demoralized, they lose the interest in politics and retreat to their private lives; or they become very angry and even more politicized, and radicalized. Both trends are troublesome.

  Elif Safak

  Opposites, Two, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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.

  Elif Safak

  Europe, Turkeys, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people and their emotions closer to my readers, not explain Turkish politics.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Turkeys, People, Culture

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• Our junior national teams feature increasing numbers of kids from immigrant backgrounds, but who have grown up in Germany. Their roots are elsewhere, but they feel German. They draw on two cultures, and I believe that's been a real and visible factor in the football we've been playing. One of the best and abiding images was Cacau, a Christian with Brazilian roots, celebrating a goal with Mesut Ozil, a Muslim from a Turkish background. Ozil jumped on to Cacau's shoulders, and they gazed up into the stands, both wearing Germany shirts. It was wonderfully symbolic.

  Oliver Bierhoff

  Christian, Football, Team

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• The E.U. initially decided to end the isolation of Turkish Cyprus, to balance the accession of Cyprus. But the E.U. has not carried through on its promise.

  Ali Babacan

  Promise, Balance, Cyprus

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• [Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Years, Veils, Lasts

  "Ataturk : An Intellectual Biography" by M. Şükrü Hanioğlu, (p. 38), 2011.

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• Islam in the Arab world coexists with Indonesian, Pakistani and Turkish Islam. There is limited solidarity, even within the Arab world.

  Walter Kasper

  Islam, World, Solidarity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Religious, Turkeys, Vision

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• Europeans take their soccer pretty seriously. So, when this Turkish TV host had the nerve to criticize the local team, the fans decided to do something about it, something like storm the TV studio during a live show.

  Tucker Carlson

  Soccer, Team, Storm

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2005.

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• I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.

  Noam Chomsky

  Able, Courageous, States

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• Most of the mosques were built in our cities in recent years because Turkish citizens in those neighborhoods feel a growing need for places to pray.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Years, Cities, Needs

  "SPIEGEL Interview with Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble: 'We Have No Relationship to our Diverse Muslim Society'". Interview with Jan Fleischhauer and Holger Stark, www.spiegel.de. September 20, 2006.

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• My friends sometimes call me "Alamanci" (Turkish for German) But it actually doesn't matter to me. I would more likely consider myself a Turkish person who grew up in Germany.

  Tarkan

  Germany, Matter, Sometimes

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Turks who live here in Germany don't get their information from German media. They read Turkish newspapers and watch Turkish television. A sort of parallel media world has developed in Germany, especially as a result of technological advances like satellite TV and the internet.

  Fatih Ak?n

  Media, Germany, Watches

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Lying, Media, Example

  "Social media and opposition to blame for protests, says Turkish PM" by Constanze Letsch, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2013.

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• Two heads are better than one.

  Unknown

  Teamwork, Educational, Kissing

  John Heywood, Rudolph E. Habenicht (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht”

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• Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Love, Horse, Food

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• Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.

  Esmeralda Santiago

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

  Esmeralda Santiago (2006). “When I was Puerto Rican”, p.243, Da Capo Press

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• I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

  Thomas Paine

  Atheist, Pain, Fear

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine”, p.4

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