Talk:Turkey

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There's a new quote about Turkey. In the movie The Muppets (2011) Walter says: Like there is a country called Turkey.

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I love Turkey. I first traveled there in my early twenties, when I was obsessed by the 1915 Dardanelles campaign. I immediately liked the people — brave, stoical, generous, hospitable and patriotic, if a little inclined to conspiracy theories. I saw Turkey as a model for the region. ~ Daniel Hannan

Turkey has a secular constitution. It's a democratic society where you have gender equality between men and women. It's a member of NATO and is in accession talks with the European Union. ~ Soner Cagaptay

Turkey and Cyprus in particular, while geologically Asian, possess elements of European culture and may be regarded as parts of Europe. ~ Encyclopædia Britannica

• Regardless of which authority ordered it and their legal reasoning, it is certain that the government, including the president, is annoyed with the growing criticism toward them in terms of handling the aftermath of the earthquakes. [And with the general election in May, the] government is obviously not happy about this criticism and wants to control the communication
  • Yaman Akdeniz, a law professor at Istanbul Bilgi University Turkish residents struggle to access Twitter in earthquake aftermath (Updated February 8, 2023 at 10:23 p.m. EST Published February 8, 2023 at 6:06 p.m. EST) By Paulina Villegas and Naomi Nix

• Turkey does not leave the rights in Azerbaijan, Syria, Libya, and the East Mediterranean to the mercy of the powerful and unjust, who have grand statements to say; it accumulates the power it needs to claim its rights where necessary. The spectacular performances demonstrated by the armed UAVs, Kirpis (“Hedgehogs,” heavy armored troop carriers), Turkish canons, and all products of the defense industry, were only showing the power of justice.
  • Yasin Aktay, Baku sends 'loud and clear' message to whole world after Karabakh war (13 December 2020)

• If ISIS is the anomaly in Islam, Turkey is the norm in Islam. Turkey has a secular constitution. It's a democratic society where you have gender equality between men and women. It's a member of NATO and is in accession talks with the European Union. It's a friend of the West and the United States and only yesterday agreed to restore diplomatic ties with Israel.
  • Soner Cagaptay, "Turkey's Istanbul Attack Vengeance Will Be Like 'Rain From Hell'" (29 June 2016), CNN

• Charge of inferiority is an old dodge. It has been made available for oppression on many occasions... When Russia wanted to take possession of a part of the Ottoman Empire, the Turks were 'an inferior race.'
  • Frederick Douglass, "What the Black Man Wants", speech in Boston, Massachusetts (1865).

• As to the territorial limits of Europe, they may seem relatively clear on its seaward flanks, but many island groups far to the north and west—Svalbard, the Faroes, Iceland, and the Madeira and Canary islands—are considered European, while Greenland (though tied politically to Denmark) is conventionally allocated to North America. Furthermore, the Mediterranean coastlands of North Africa and southwestern Asia also exhibit some European physical and cultural affinities. Turkey and Cyprus in particular, while geologically Asian, possess elements of European culture and may be regarded as parts of Europe.
  • Encyclopædia Britannica, Europe

• People in the judiciary and the police carried out investigations and launched this case, as their duties normally require. Apparently they weren't informed of the fact that corruption and bribery have ceased to be criminal acts in Turkey.
  • Tim Franks, "Turkey's Fethullah Gulen denies corruption probe links" (27 January 2014), BBC News, United Kingdom: British Broadcasting Corporation.

• Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kowtow before any United States proconsul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.
  • Andrei Gromyko, New York Herald Tribune (30 June 1953)

• I love Turkey. I first traveled there in my early twenties, when I was obsessed by the 1915 Dardanelles campaign. I immediately liked the people — brave, stoical, generous, hospitable and patriotic, if a little inclined to conspiracy theories. I saw Turkey as a model for the region, a successful, Western-oriented Muslim democracy.
  • Daniel Hannan, "The republic will survive Trump, but will the Republicans?" (3 September 2018), The Washington Examiner

• Relations between Turkey and Greece are the most fractious of any pair of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) 29 member countries. Disputes range from contested offshore hydrocarbon exploration to Athens granting political refugee status to two of eight Turkish officers who fled to Greece after the failed July 2016 coup attempt (Hürriyet Daily News, May 24, 2018). Now, Turkey is protesting Greece’s activities off its Aegean coast. On May 12, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hami Aksoy stated that Turkey claims Greece does not respect the demilitarized status of its islands in the eastern Aegean, adding that NATO warships operating in the Aegean should not use Greek ports there for visits and refueling (Mfa.gov.tr, May 12, 2019). Aksoy’s concerns mask a broader anxiety in Ankara that NATO and the United States may be planning to deepen their military presence in the eastern Mediterranean to include more bases in Greece and its Aegean islands.
  • Turkey Fumes as Greece Offers Use of Eastern Aegean Islands to NATO, US Eurasia Daily Monitor, Volume: 16 Issue: 80,(The Jamestown Foundation], by John C. K. Daly, (31 May 2019)

• I am one of the servants of Allah. We do our duty of fighting for the sake of the religion of Allah. It is also our duty to send a call to all the people of the world to enjoy this great light and to embrace Islam and experience the happiness in Islam. Our primary mission is nothing but the furthering of this religion. ... Let not the West be taken in by those who say that Muslims choose nothing but slaughtering. Their brothers in East Europe, in Turkey and in Albania have been guided by Allah to submit to Islam and to experience the bliss of Islam. Unlike those, the European and the American people and some of the Arabs are under the influence of Jewish media.
  • Osama bin Laden, Interview with ABC reporter John Miller (May 1998)

• The European Union and many of its countries, which used to take initiatives in the United Nations for peaceful settlements of conflict, are now one of the most important war assets of the U.S./NATO front. Many countries have also been drawn into complicity in breaking international law through U.S./U.K./NATO wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and so on.
  • Mairead Maguire in The Disturbing Expansion of the Military-Industrial Complex, Common Dreams, (14 October 2014)

• Turkey, like every country, has a right to defend its territory and its airspace.
  • Barack H. Obama II, Remarks by President Obama and President Hollande of France in Joint Press Conference (24 November 2015)

• All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
  • Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (1793), Part I.

• Removing rubble, searching for victims and providing them with medical assistance in areas that have experience the most severe destruction. About earthquake in Turkey-Syria.
  • Russian Defense Ministry Russia Sending Aid to Turkey, Syria After Devastating Earthquake (Updated: one day ago)

• We all know the Turkish state is in a position to control its borders. It is not failed state, it is a proper functioning state so we have to negotiate with Turkey for its responsibilities. It is not like Libya which is ungovernable.
  • EU Leader, Krzysztof Szczerski, quoted on The Guardian (February 18, 2016), "Poland will not accept cut in benefits for those already in UK, says aide"

• Turkey doesn’t understand that, for the United States, buying a sophisticated Russian air defense system is a major national security issue that can’t be papered over. But Americans don’t understand that all their tough talk about leveling sanctions against Turkey if the Russian arms sale goes through only plays into Turkish leaders’ hands politically...
  Speaking at a forum on Ankara-Washington relations hosted by the Hudson Institute in Washington, Hudson fellow Blaise Misztal said that, to President Tayyip Erdogan and his political coalition partners, “sanctions and kicking you out of 'NATO is a winning policy” because it fuels long-standing and growing anti-Americanism in their nationalist-leaning array of parties. Since 2014, and particularly after a failed coup attempt in 2016 that many Turks believe was known in Washington before it was launched, Erdogan “is becoming closer to [Vladimir] Putin, Bashir al Assad, Iran and China” to burnish his nationalist credentials, Misztal said. As an example of how this plays out, Erdogan told his parliament Wednesday the nation is “passing through a very critical period, from economy to security.” He warned about plotters still inside its borders and their outside supporters. At the same time as Erdogan spoke, a Turkish newspaper reported the defense ministry is sending troops to Russia to receive familiarization training for the S-400 air defense system.
  • The U.S. Naval Institute News, Panel: US/Turkey Dispute Over Buying Russian Air Defense System Has Deeper Roots by John Grady, (22 May 2019)

• …I think that I have said that at three or four meetings before rather than us talking about the problem of Cyprus which makes that it becomes a problem for the Republic as it is worldwide known we ought to talk about the problem of Turkey, it is really a 100% Turkish problem that they're not acting in the way in which they should be acting and if that's the case well shove it to them!
  • Rudi Vis, [At the Friends of Cyprus meeting in the Jubilee Room at the House of Commons, 3rd July 2007] (see External links for transcript).

• Understand this: Turkey is a country whose warnings should be taken seriously and listened to. Don't test Turkey's patience. Try to win its friendship.
  • Serdar Kılıç, Twitter (24 November 2015).

• [I]n Germany we are giving work to two million people from Turkey.
  • Uli Stielike, as quoted in Hamburger Abendblatt 20 November 2003
  • Original German: [I]n Deutschland zwei Millionen Menschen aus der Türkei Arbeit geben.