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Quotes About Turkey

Turkey's regime is fast degenerating into outright dictatorship, emboldened by the imminent ascent of Donald Trump to the most powerful position on Earth.
~ Owen Jones
My nation wants the death penalty. That is the decision of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Israel is thirsting for water, and Turkey is overflowing with it.
~ Stephen Kinzer
Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Turkey's a NATO member. If Turkey gets attacked, we have to help defend Turkey.
~ Wesley Clark
Heads know that failing to invest in good, nutritious food is a false economy and parents won't tolerate reconstituted turkey being put back on the menu.
~ Jamie Oliver
Turkey has never been colonized, so it remained as an independent nation after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
~ Mustafa Akyol
A week before Thanksgiving, my mother bought the turkey, frozen. Then she froze it some more. Then she let it thaw and cleaned it - and I mean really cleaned it, because nobody wanted a 'dirty bird.' She salt-and-peppered the turkey, buttered, paprika-ed, and nominally stuffed it.
~ Wesley Morris
My father was in Ataturk's closest group. They lived together during the War of Liberation in Turkey.
~ Ahmet Ertegun
I know how much football is loved in Turkey. I will make the Galatasaray fans very proud and very happy.
~ Wesley Sneijder
I am fond of turkey with all the stuffing, which is my favourite!
~ Catherine Tresa
Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.
~ Viktor Orban
Turkey will be in Cyprus forever.
~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan
I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Turkey does not have an official exchange rate target.
~ Ali Babacan
My parents were born into a secular country. They met in Turkey's top medical school, moved to America in the nineteen-seventies, and became researchers and professors.
~ Elif Batuman
My next film, 'The Prince Of Players,' was Hollywood's first turkey in CinemaScope - when CinemaScope was new and hotter than a pistol.
~ Richard Burton
You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can't say I'm very impressed with the food in America. it's all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches.
~ Anne Dudley
You may keep Turkey on the map of Europe, you may call the country by the name of Turkey if you like, but do not think you can keep up the Mahommedan rule in the country.
~ Richard Cobden
After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates - but being in the general vicinity of Europe does seem to be a continuing requirement.
~ Timothy Garton Ash
Iran also has an extensive missile development programme. Iranian officials declare that the range of their modified Shahab-3 missiles is 2,000km, putting allied countries such as Turkey, Greece, Romania, and Bulgaria within reach.
~ Anders Fogh Rasmussen
We don't yet call it 'Thxgvng,' because any holiday whose centerpiece sits in an oven for four to six hours, after having sat out for as long to reach room temperature, must be spelled all the way out. Cook a turkey. You'll see. This is to say that you're not just roasting a turkey, obviously.
~ Wesley Morris
My mother very rarely skipped a Thanksgiving turkey. And yet, none of them ever tasted quite the same, landing somewhere on a sliding scale of succulence. She'd try new methods.
~ Wesley Morris
As a South African, the idea of turkey was new to me. And confusing. It's about the least flavorful bird on the planet.
~ Kimbal Musk