#turkish

Love creates bridges much more than all the engineers of the world! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#love

Once you take sword in your hand, you will lose your right to talk about the peace! Man of peace and love never takes the sword in his hand! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#love

Whatever their ideas or ideologies or religions are, always get along well with people! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#religion

Let me tell you something. Do you know why those Turkish girls cover their faces? You think it’s because of religion? No. It’s because otherwise no one can stand to look at them! ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#turkish #religion

The untrue things don’t deserve to be respected! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#respect

When Turkey buys Iranian oil, we pay for it in Turkish lira... However, it is not possible for Iran to take that money as dollars into its own country due to international restrictions, the U.S.A.'s sanctions. Therefore, when Iran cannot take this money back as currency, they withdraw Turkish lira and buy gold from our market. ↗

— Ali Babacan

#buy #buys #cannot #country #currency

My visit to the United States has also given me the opportunity to emphasize the objective of establishing close and intensive links between the Turkish and American peoples, scholars and businessmen. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#american #between #businessmen #close #emphasize

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#atrocities #called #coming #go #government

Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#army #build #helped #officers #own

I lived on the Greek side of Cypress, and I think that's also where my interest in politics really started to come alive. It was the first time that I was told I couldn't go somewhere: My grandfather's house is on the Turkish side, but we were not allowed to go there. ↗

— Hannah Simone

#allowed #also #come #first #first time