890 Quotes About Turkish

I once tried to take the army unit here [Kurdish village] back to the barracks, but the village chief came and said he would resign if I did.Soldiers [Turks] here help with irrigation, painting walls, building carpet workshops, and so on. When there's an army unit here, the villagers even have a doctor and free medicine.

Organize competitions to let the local people see that your sharpshooters shoot well. But don't allow the bodies of dead terrorists to be robbed. Don't show damaged bodies of terrorists in the village square to try to show 'this is what we can do'. This behavior may frighten the people but damages the image of a caring state.

We (Turkish soldiers) were met by just a few men on horseback in Caucasian dress, like fairy-tale soldiers with silver-plated sabres in their belts. Our small procession seemed to me to be the harbinger of a great liberation, the awakening of the vast land of Turan. It was a new Ergenekon.

Rarely has the West in its quasi-totality taken up such a persistent and negative image of a people (the Turks).

You can see your real face only when you stop deceiving yourself! Until then, you will always see someone which is not you!

You are either Ataturk's turk or Erdogan's turk, you cannot be both.

If giving up is to fail, then to hell with give up!

Our duty would be to create, in the place of the outdated (Ottoman) Empire, a new national entity in harmony with its historic and linguistic unity and its desires.

Most people give up their dreams when they see few dark clouds on the horizon! Cowards can never reach their destinations, but then even the toughest storms cannot touch the determination of a gallant mind!