Turkish Quotes
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.
I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.
A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.
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.
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.
I'm English, without a doubt. I will never ever say I'm not English. English born and bred. I'm Turkish, though
Doing a picture with Willie Wyler is like getting the works at a Turkish bath. You damn near drown, but you come out smelling like a rose.
In Turkey religion not only affects society but is affected by it, which is why Turkish Islam differs from Arab Islam. It's a more modern, more rational, more self-confident society.
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.
If you are well ahead of your own society, your path will seem a wrong path to your own people!
Your body travels sometimes to somewhere but your mind travels every time to everywhere!
There is October in every November and there is November in every December! All seasons melted in each other’s life!
You may not be happy with your life. All you have to do is to refuse to be unhappy! Because the worst thing is to get used to be unhappy!
Reaching the top requires taking a good break every time you need it! On the way up, you must never hesitate to stop for a while!
Anywhere in the world, if you see a law which is protecting the rapists, you must know that this law has been prepared by the rapists!
If you are stupid enough not to know the difference between the devil and the angel, you quickly find the devil! This is what happens to most people in democracies just after elections!
The most beautiful sunset is the one which suddenly appears in front of you while you are walking pensively!
There is a non-technical way to travel in time: Try to create religious generations in your country, then you will certainly travel back in time, into the old eras!
Yes, fascism is a horrible storm, but the storm prepares his own death by receiving fatal wounds while hitting the things he is destroying!
Sometimes there is no time to wait for the sea to calm down! If you have to reach your target, let your voyage start and let the storm be your path!
When the unexpected meets with the unprepared, over there we find the greatest astonishments!
Always refuse to be like the others! The more you become similar to the others the more you will be useless because there are already plenty of the others!
We are all born in a little port but not all of us sail the vast oceans! Majority remains in the port!
Old people deserves a medal, a medal of existence which crowns their long-term victory against the cruelty of time and the dangers of this chaotic universe!
When we are under a tree, we are under a temple, a temple of countless goodnesses!
Time will come and riding horses will be seen by the whole society as a severe animal rights violation!
In any country where there is a dishonorable government, there is certainly a dishonorable nation!
Enlarge your windows till you get a window where you can see the whole universe with one look!
Enlarge your windows till you will get a window where you can see the whole universe with one look!
Without seeing the whole picture and without knowing the whole story of a man’s life, our judgements about him will most probably be wrong and unfair!
All we need to know about the storms is this: Storms are born, they live and they die! And they destroy anything wildly, just like we do in wars!
A city man taking the picture of a donkey and behaving like he has seen an alien creature must absolutely be photographed as he is certainly more interesting than the donkey itself!
Watch yourself from different angles so that you can understand better who you really are!
Plains watch the mountains and mountains watch the plains. Through looks, everything touches everything, even though they have many kilometers or even light years between them!
When you do something, you miss something else! If you don’t want to miss anything, you have to do everything!
Let the colours of your ideas are red so that all can easily notice them! And what is red? Red is scream, red is power, red is assertion!
Sovereignty unconditionally belongs neither to the people of the nation nor to some supernatural power but to the human mind, to the science and to the high ethical values!