Turkish Quotes - Page 4

• Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have to respect the Turkish Republic's laws

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Law, Republic, Social Media

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• My visit to the United States has also given me the opportunity to emphasize the objective of establishing close and intensive links between the Turkish and American peoples, scholars and businessmen

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Opportunity, United States, Links

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• Euphemisms, vague terminology or calls for discussions with Turkey to get at the truth are just some of the dodges Congress and the administration have used to avoid Turkish discomfort with its Ottoman past.

  Adam Schiff

  Past, Turkeys, Ottomans

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• For peace and brotherhood, I am ready to serve the Turkish state, and I believe that for this end I must remain alive.

  Abdullah Ocalan

  Believe, Brotherhood, Alive

  Turkish Press Review, June 1, 1999.

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• When Turkey buys Iranian oil, we pay for it in Turkish lira... However, it is not possible for Iran to take that money as dollars into its own country due to international restrictions, the U.S.A.s sanctions. Therefore, when Iran cannot take this money back as currency, they withdraw Turkish lira and buy gold from our market.

  Ali Babacan

  Country, Iran, Turkeys

  "Iran importing gold to evade economic sanctions, Turkish official says" by Ivan Watson and Gul Tuysuz, www.cnn.com. November 29, 2012.

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• You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

  Turkeys, People, Culture

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• We'll eradicate Twitter. I don't care what the international community says. Everyone will witness the power of the Turkish Republic. There is now a scourge that is called Twitter. The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society. They came to me with this case of Twitter ignoring case of smeared housewife. I said, let's solve this.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Lying, Media, Community

  "Feathers Fly As Top Turkish Officials Square Off Over Twitter Ban". "The Two-Way", www.npr.org. March 21, 2014.

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• Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants.

  John Shimkus

  Land, People, Age

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• And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?

  Melina Mercouri

  Greek, Invasion, Subjugation

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• ...the Idumeans (Edomites) were...made Jews...and a Turkish people (Khazars) were mainly Jews in South Russia...The main part of Jewry never was in Judea and had never come out of Judea.

  H. G. Wells

  Russia, People, Made

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• As for ISIS, we know where they come from. We know who has used them in the past. We know their sectarianism leads to killings. Here the Turkish state, like its NATO bosses, has helped to create a monster that it now claims to oppose.

  Tariq Ali

  Past, Boss, Killing

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• There's opposition in Europe to Turkish membership because these are the inevitable fears of energetic, poorer, Muslim outsiders who will come in and work hard and take jobs. There's also a fear that under E.U. rules Turkey might get a disproportionate amount of cohesion funds and agricultural subsidies - although it's quite clear that Europe is changing its rules, and that there will not be very much in the way of net transfers of resources from Europe to Turkey.

  Andrew Mango

  Hard Work, Outsiders, Inevitable

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• I would like the refugee crisis to become a new beginning in the Turkish-European relationship. But it would be very problematic if, during this process, human rights were forgotten. Democracy needs to be the priority.

  Elif Safak

  New Beginnings, Refugee Crisis, Rights

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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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• There has at least been a serious effort on the Turkish side to prevent people from setting off for Europe. Recently, only about 100 people have been arriving in Greece per day. Last year, it was several thousand daily at times. This effort can, however, also very quickly dwindle.

  Sebastian Kurz

  People, Effort, Serious

  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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• 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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• Jalaluddin Rumi is completely rooted in Islamic teachings of Quran. He was a great scholar, he belonged to a madrassa, and he knew Islamic theology and jurisprudence very well. He knew Persian, Arabic and Turkish, which was coming into Anatolia at that time, very well. He was a remarkable, remarkable scholar, besides being a great saint.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Teaching, Islamic, Saint

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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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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• Donald Trump has made the principle of purposely breaking a taboo into a means of achieving his political objectives, which is something that he has in common with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Trump systematically violates international rules. But we cannot allow ourselves to forget that Trump is not the U.S.

  Martin Schulz

  Mean, Political, President

  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 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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• 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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