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Quotes About Turkey

Sen Rousseau filan diyorsun. Ne ilgisi var onlar?n burayla?.. Rousseau Türkiye'de yaÅŸasayd? bir falakadan geçirir adam ederlerdi.
~ Orhan Pamuk
İşte bu doÄŸru. Burada, Türkiye'de insan hiçbir ÅŸeye akl?yla inanamaz.
~ Orhan Pamuk
We used to be brothers and sisters here. Kurdish, did not know he was. Turkmenians, Germans, they all existed here but never were proud of it. That pride was only distributed by the powers who aimed to destroy Turkey.
~ Orhan Pamuk
THE APPROACH OF Thanksgiving on November 29 sent Springfield into a panic—not over the nation-imperiling crisis plaguing its leading citizen, but the apparently more dismaying prospect of a local turkey shortage.
~ Harold Holzer
I will love you as an oven loves malfunctioning in the middle of roasting a turkey.
~ Lemony Snicket
Despite their continuing efforts of denial and revisionist interpretation, however, there is now widespread recognition that the Turkish destruction of the Armenians between 1915 and 1923 stands as the first "total genocide" of the twentieth century.
~ James Waller
Human migration seems to follow a certain pattern, from eastern Africa into modern Israel then up through modern Turkey and into eastern Europe, where they worked their way west.
~ James Weber
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
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
The FCO must help Turkey reinforce accountable state institutions, while also developing ties far beyond them: the UK needs a deeper and therefore more durable relationship with the Turkish people, whichever background they hold, while working to uphold the values of human rights and democracy that benefit them all.
~ Crispin Blunt
Don't they put aunts in Turkey in sacks and drop them in the Bosphorus?' 'Odalisques, sir, I understand. Not aunts.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Turkey's regional role, which Erdo?an describes as "a continuation of the Ottomans"? Turkey's "accretion of history, and geographic location," he says, make it "the only country that can lead the Muslim world.
~ Daniel Yergin
This was not before doctors, but in Turkey they hadn't gotten around to claiming the bone business yet; milkmen still were in charge of bones, the logic being that since milk was so good for bones, who would know more about borken bones than a milkman?
~ William Goldman
Since Kemal's death, Turkey has been ruled by small minds, unsteady, weak men.
~ William L. Shirer
I suppose if I went to Turkey - I mean, I can't imagine going that far away, but if I did go to Turkey, yes, I would probably try to know 'please' and 'sorry' and 'thank you', and 'a beer please', and all the useful words.
~ Robert Webb
We are convinced that Turkey would be a useful member of the European Union.
~ Martti Ahtisaari
Bear in mind how valuable a secular Turkey is for the world.
~ 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
The first turkey that ever came to me on the ground did it a long time ago. I sat there with my hands shaking and my breath short and my heart hammering so hard I could not understand why he could not hear it. The last turkey that came to me last spring had exactly the same effect, and the day that this does not happen to me is the day that I quit.
~ Unknown
The Jews were slaves in the land of their Exile, and suddenly they found themselves with unlimited freedom, wild freedom that only exists in a land like Turkey. This sudden change has produced in their hearts an inclination toward repressive tyranny, as always happens when a slave rules.
~ Tom Segev
The past was a consumable, subject to the national preference for familiar products. And history, in America, is a dish best served plain. The first course could include a dollop of Italian in 1492, but not Spanish spice or French sauce or too much Indian corn. Nothing too filling or fancy ahead of the turkey and pumpkin pie, just the way Grandma used to cook it.
~ Tony Horwitz
Documentary on renegade North Syracuse NNY turkey farmers' bid to prevent toxification of Thanksgiving crop by commandeering long, shiny O.N.A.N. trucks to transplant over 200,000 pertussive fowl south to Ithica.
~ David Foster Wallace
On at least three other occasions, Hitler pointed to the brutality of Turkey's regime and its willingness to strike without mercy as a worthy model for his own government.7
~ Christopher Simpson
My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round.
~ Cindy Margolis