71 Quotes About Turkey

I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what risk the nations of Europe ran, not so many centuries ago of being overwhelmed by the Turks

Kurt was crazy, who wouldn't have been?

Turkey's true master is the peasant.

Yeah, we should all line up along the Bosphorus Bridge and puff as hard as we can to shove this city in the direction of the West. If that doesn't work, we'll try the other way, see if we can veer to the East. It's no good to be in between. International politics does not appreciate ambiguity.

Why after my years of education, after studying the secular civilization and the socialization process, should i decent to the level of common people, i will make them rise to my level, let me not resemble them, they should resemble me!

takvime uzun uzun baktığımı gören yaşlı, güngörmüş ev sahibi yanıma geldi. ona bu resmin ne olduğunu sordum. şehname'de, rüstem'in sührab'ı öldürdükten sonra oğlu için ağladığı sahne olduğunu söyledi. yüzünde "nasıl bilmezsiniz?" diyen gururlu bir bakış vardı. iranlılar, batılılaşma yüzünden geçmiş şairlerini ve efsanelerini unutan biz türkler gibi değiller diye düşündüm. özellikle şairlerini unutmazlar.

... despite the Turks' friendliness, most of the exiles soon left Istanbul. No opportunities existed there for them, and Turkey seemed an alien land. Private individuals proceeded to western Europe, French visas being most sought after. Russians still regarded Paris as the center of civilization, especially in contrast to the ferocious Stone Age into which Russia had fallen, or to the sleepy lands of the former Ottoman Empire.

Such are the humiliations of the travel writer in the late 20th century: go to the ends of the earth to search for the most exotic heretics in the world, and you will find that they have cornered the kebab business at the end of your street in London.

Nothing beats Istanbul when it comes to street food. The city's sidewalks are a walkable sampler platter.