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The key to Turkey's success has been its ability to reinvent itself as times change. -- Stephen Kinzer
In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated. -- Joe Wurzelbacher
I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries. -- Orhan Pamuk
In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient. -- Mehmet Oz
Turkey's 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. -- Ali Babacan
There is much to justify Turkey's reverence for Ataturk. He is the force that allowed Turkey to rise from the ashes of defeat and emerge as a vibrant new nation. -- Stephen Kinzer
If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future. -- Mark Foley
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
I've backpacked to countries like Italy and Turkey and observed beautiful scenery, but then I realized that beauty was always very close to me. It is here in Belitung Island, where the rivers, beaches and the terrain captivate my attention most. -- Andrea Hirata
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. -- Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Turkey's true master is the peasant. -- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey. -- Orhan Pamuk
Romania strongly supports Turkey's E.U. accession. -- Victor Ponta
When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do. -- Honore de Balzac
Europe will get a stable and prosperous Turkey. -- Olli Rehn
Dinner Special - Turkey $2.35; Chicken or Beef $2.25; Children $2.00 -- Dave Barry
The West has the wrong perception about Turkey itself. -- Guler Sabanci
Turkey does not have an official exchange rate target. -- Ali Babacan
Turkey has worked alongside its allies from the beginning. -- Ahmet Davutoglu
Turkey's economy is powerful enough to tackle tough times. -- Ali Babacan
Moving to Turkey was the turning point in my life. -- Tarkan
Turkey, Australia, and Japan are three of my top destinations. -- Rick Riordan
Israel is thirsting for water, and Turkey is overflowing with it. -- Stephen Kinzer
To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense. -- Gerrit Smith
Turkey shares Europe's fundamental values of democracy and the rule of law. -- Ali Babacan
Devout Anatolian masses rising from poverty have transformed Turkey politically and economically. -- Pankaj Mishra
Dan watched in awe. "I didn't know you talk Turkey." "I speak Turkish. -- Peter Lerangis
In Turkey the religious minorities have more rights than they do in Europe. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Two races we've lost which I'm genuinely upset about were India and Turkey. -- Bernie Ecclestone
Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy. -- Ali Babacan
And the separatist terrorist organization, PKK, had easy access to Turkey to, inside Turkey. -- Bulent Ecevit
We are convinced that Turkey would be a useful member of the European Union. -- Martti Ahtisaari
Turkey will "inevitably" join the EU in our lifetime unless we vote to leave. -- Michael Gove
When England go to Turkey there could be fatalities - or even worse, injuries. -- Phil Neal
Turkey's a NATO member. If Turkey gets attacked, we have to help defend Turkey. -- Wesley Clark
Few if any countries understand the growing importance of water as fully as Turkey does. -- Stephen Kinzer
Wild Turkey whiskey and Philip Morris cigarettes are essential to the maintenance of human life! -- Herb Kelleher
The fueling of anti-Turkish sentiment in Europe is resulting in an anti-European, indiscriminate nationalism in Turkey. -- Orhan Pamuk
If one has problems with immigrant communities in Europe, that should not be used against Turkey. -- Martti Ahtisaari
Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Turkey is a model of economic and social development, especially in terms of human resources and regional cooperation. -- Victor Ponta
Russia's now in the middle of a fierce confrontation with Turkey. And that's one of France's NATO allies. -- Corey Flintoff
Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe. -- William Hague
There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well. -- Orhan Pamuk
We would also lean on Turkey to ensure that it closes its border to the movement of jihadi groups. -- Jill Stein
The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey's model seems to be winning. -- Mustafa Akyol
The dramatic rise of Turkey in the councils of world power was one of the main geopolitical developments of 2010. -- Stephen Kinzer
The discourse of the West and the attitudes of its leaders are important because they influence public debate in Turkey. -- Safak Pavey
I am saying that the recent activities by Turkey's Ministry of Agriculture, particularly the culling and communication work, is good. -- Bill Vaughan
My own daughters weren't able to study in Turkey because of their headscarves, so they went to the United States. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
The government in Turkey, which represents the powerful, traditionalist mass, is very comfortable creating policies tailored only for their supporters. -- Safak Pavey
I will never forget my first game for England at the World Cup, It was against Turkey... no I mean Tunisia. -- David Seaman
Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. -- Ambrose Bierce
Whether you go to Turkey or Mexico, China or Australia, find time to involve yourself with the people you're dealing with. -- Brigitte Nielsen
If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time. -- Salman Rushdie
Turkey was fantastic, Turkey was like mystical and such a special place. Just unique, something that's really hard to describe, such beauty. -- Violante Placido
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. -- Mike Pesca
When I did the cover of 'Cosmo International,' Turkey picked it up and I got a lot of backlash for it. -- Khloe Kardashian
Turkey will not let Turkish territory or airspace be used in any activity that could harm the security or safety of Syria. -- Ali Babacan
A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government. -- Henry David Thoreau
As the United States shapes and carries out its policies toward Muslim countries, it should do so with Turkey at its side. -- Stephen Kinzer
With the exception of China, and perhaps Turkey, no country in the world matters as much to the United States as Mexico. -- Stephen Kinzer
That is one of the reasons why we advocate for good relations between the two countries. Turkey understands the needs of the region. -- Igor Luksic
Matt Le Tissier had firm views about Austria's reluctance to allow Turkey full membership of the EU last Saturday, I seem to recall. -- Jeff Stelling
It is very important that the world know that there have been 500 years of peaceful coexistence in Turkey between the Jews and Moslems. -- Ahmet Ertegun
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. -- Vijay Prashad
My family is a Jewish Iranian family, but I was born in Turkey and raised in Italy. So it's a very mixed background. -- Nouriel Roubini
I was born in Turkey in an extremely oppressive climate at the time of pogroms, massacres, really. An immigrant appreciates the freedom more. -- Elia Kazan
Foreign journalists writing about Turkey like to focus on the most fundamental divide in Turkish society: the rift between religious conservatives and secularists. -- Mustafa Akyol
The United States is facing serious pushback from Turkey, which is not comfortable with the view that the Islamic State is a terrorist organization. -- Vijay Prashad
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. -- Vijay Prashad
The long-term strategic goals of Iran and the long-term strategic goals of Turkey are close to the long-term strategic goals of the United States. -- Stephen Kinzer
President Erdogan is aiming Turkey at a Sharia nation. That's where he wants to go. He is a Sharia law, full-fledged, one percent Islamist. -- Rush Limbaugh
If Iran obtains nuclear weapons, then almost certainly Saudi Arabia will do the same, as will Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others in the region. -- John Bolton
President Erdogan is aiming Turkey at a Sharia nation. That's where he wants to go. He is a Sharia law, full-fledged, one percent Islamist. -- Rush Limbaugh
Turkey wants a policy of engagement exactly like President Obama's new approach. Policy of engagement, less confrontation, less tense attitude, especially in the region. -- Ahmet Davutoglu
Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue. -- Noam Chomsky
It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off. -- Charles Dickens
Turkey, Japan do great work because they can keep under control their little personal selfishness, egoism, jealousy, etc. when they get down to work. -- Sri Aurobindo
The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone. -- Orhan Pamuk
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. -- Patrick Cockburn
But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America. -- Gerrit Smith
A small minority in Turkey even accuses me of having political ambitions, when in fact I have been struggling with various illnesses for many years. -- Fethullah Gulen
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 -- Matteo Salvini
The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern Turkey. They're all intertwined. -- Orhan Pamuk
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. -- Ahmet Davutoglu
A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days. -- Ellsworth Huntington
I'm one of these people that if I have a nice holiday - like I have had in Turkey repeatedly - I go back a lot. -- Freema Agyeman
Save a life this Thanksgiving, and join me in starting a new tradition by adopting a turkey instead of eating one through Farm Sanctuary's Adopt-A-Turkey Project. -- Ellen DeGeneres
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. -- Talaat Pasha
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. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
It's probably worth noting that although I'm ethnically Greek, my grandfather was actually born in Turkey and came through Greece on his way to the United States. -- James G. Stavridis
I am sympathetic to the fact that Turkey is doing everything it can to prevent the civil war in Syria from spilling over into its own country. -- Thomas de Maiziere
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
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Someone is putting brandy in your bonbons, Grand Marnier in your breakfast jam, Kahlua in your ice cream, Scotch in your mustard and Wild Turkey in your cake. -- Marian Burros
I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and we toured the country. -- Navid Negahban
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. -- Todd English
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. -- Mark Twain
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
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. -- Bashar al-Assad
But thanks to the efforts, the initiative of the United States and of the several countries from the world, from Europe, including Turkey, it ended within a few weeks. -- Bulent Ecevit
You know what Disneyland is known for? The Big Turkey Leg. People walk around with enormous deep-fried turkey legs. Like little kids, three-year-old kids eating these five-pound turkey legs. -- Steve Carell
I think it's important to remember the tensions between Turkey and Russia predate this jet shoot down by some time. I mean, Russia's long been Bashar al-Assad's strongest backer. -- Peter Kenyon
The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world--Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon--there are more Muhammads than anything else. -- Muhammad Ali
Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy. -- Orhan Pamuk
It is unfair to ask Turkey to make a unilateral concession to take goods from Cyprus within the customs union when the E.U. is not open to northern Cyprus. -- Ali Babacan
Iran is a huge country and much, much more sophisticated than most people imagine ... It certainly has the potential to be at least the way Turkey is to most Americans. -- Hooman Majd
Without Ataturk's vision, without his ambition and energy, without his astonishing boldness in sweeping away traditions accumulated over centuries, today's Turkey would not exist, and the world would be much poorer. -- Stephen Kinzer
With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region. -- Victor Ponta
National consciousness is truly a miraculous thing. When I am not in Turkey I feel even more Turkish than in Istanbul. But when I'm home my European side becomes more apparent. -- Orhan Pamuk
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. -- Martin Schulz
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. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Gloucestershire police must be the envy of the human rights-abusing cop world. From Turkey to Indonesia they will say, 'Kidnapping peace protestors! How did they get away with that one?' -- Mark Thomas
I am the triple owner of the world, the finest Turkey, the Lorelei, Germania and Helvetia of exclusively sweet butter and Naples, and I must supply the whole world with macaroni. -- Carl Jung
Taking stock of 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' a decade later, the Financial Times concluded that the US won the war, Iran won the peace, and Turkey won the contracts. I can only agree. -- Joschka Fischer
Politicians like Prime Minister David Cameron have lost all sense of reality. The people have seen how billions were spent on Greece and Turkey, on deals with Erdogan or for asylum seekers. -- Geert Wilders
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. -- Ali Babacan
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. -- Peter Kenyon

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