Every family in Konya has at least one shoemaker in their midst, and I am one of those families.

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.

Zero problems with neighbors' is a value. But another equally important value is to establish peace.

Today the search for a new global order is under way.

Turkey has worked alongside its allies from the beginning.

Our future is our sense of common destiny.

If you can serve everyone who visits you, you must be doing well in business.

We said that pledges made in the peace process need to be fulfilled as soon as possible.

Some things are difficult to adapt to.

As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.

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.

No human should mislead another by promising them something they know to be untrue.

Every traveler should make their own observation.

At least that left hope for him. Except "Beauty and the Geek" wasn’t exactly the proper translation of the popular fairy tale.

Friendships offer more than happiness and a feeling of mutual camaraderie

Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fairTo be death’s conquest and make worms thine heir.

Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.

In the 8th inning you can't hear the roar of the 9th, all you can do to hold yourself together, and trust.

My big influences are piano artists like Billy Joel and Elton John.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

Holocaust? Ninety million Indians? Only four million left? They all have casinos - what's to complain about?