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Quotes About Turkey

I think I'm going to give my baby her first food on Thanksgiving, make her some organic sweet potato. I'm very excited! It's going to be a big day and my husband is in charge of the turkey - he's the chef of the family!
~ Lily Aldridge
The fueling of anti-Turkish sentiment in Europe is resulting in an anti-European, indiscriminate nationalism in Turkey.
~ Orhan Pamuk
I have nothing against turkey. We eat turkey for Thanksgiving in my house.
~ Marc Forgione
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
And the separatist terrorist organization, PKK, had easy access to Turkey to, inside Turkey.
~ Bulent Ecevit
Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
There is a heated debate in Turkey these days over whether the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is furthering democracy or rolling it back.
~ Mustafa Akyol
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
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
As the United States shapes and carries out its policies toward Muslim countries, it should do so with Turkey at its side.
~ Stephen Kinzer
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
Turkey is immersed in a profound social and political conflict between secularists, who have been in power since the republic was founded, and an insurgent Islamic-based movement that seeks to increase the role of religion in public life.
~ Stephen Kinzer
Turkey has a young and growing population. Until recently, this was perceived as a problem, a burden that Turkey would bring to the E.U. But it is, in fact, an asset that can help the population deficit of the E.U. and the economic growth of Turkey.
~ Ali Babacan
One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.
~ Padma Lakshmi
When I did the cover of 'Cosmo International,' Turkey picked it up and I got a lot of backlash for it.
~ Khloe Kardashian
It's all about salsa with grain chips, tofu, turkey slices, hummus, and coconut water.
~ Laurieann Gibson
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
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
One of the tasks that any artistic director has is, you're trying to bring elements together that will work. The truth is that you could bring all the best talents in the world together and produce a big turkey.
~ Kevin Spacey
The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey's model seems to be winning.
~ Mustafa Akyol
Turkey's solidarity with Hamas is not, of course, based on Arab nationalism, which as a non-Arab nation it does not support. It is instead based on a definition of the Mideast conflict as one between Jews and Muslims, precisely the position of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda.
~ Elliott Abrams
The West has the wrong perception about Turkey itself.
~ Guler Sabanci
Few if any countries understand the growing importance of water as fully as Turkey does.
~ Stephen Kinzer
Turkey and Brazil, though half a world apart geographically, have much in common. Both are large countries that spent long years under military dominance, but have broken with that history and made decisive steps towards full democracy.
~ Stephen Kinzer