Quotes About Turkish People

#1. Turkey has a very young, dynamic, curious population. In Europe, Facebook and Twitter are mostly about sharing daily experiences while for Turkish people, social networks are political platforms.

Elif Safak

#2. The Idumeans (Edomites) were ... made Jews ... and a Turkish people (Khazars) were mainly Jews in South Russia ... The main part of Jewry never was in Judea and had never come out of Judea.

H.G.Wells

#3. The Turkish people are the friendliest I've ever met.

Keeley Hawes

#4. I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos Santana. I'd hear Queen. I'd hear all these Turkish people, like, bands that he grew up listening to. He was in a band as well.

Action Bronson

#5. Writers like Pierre Loti, by contrast, make no secret of loving Istanbul and the Turkish people for the opposite reason: for the preservation of their eastern particularity and their resistance to becoming western.

Orhan Pamuk

#6. Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants.

John Shimkus

#7. I'm very curious why people in school all the time from 2-3 class up to the last 6-7 they talk about football. What can be said??
Sharing about a team few sentences, who has won, and rought said that's all. But why people stretch it like a Turkish delight with the same end???

Deyth Banger

#8. There is always a beautiful light around the compassionate people: The shining light of goodness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. As far as concerns the army, I don't know which people among us can claim to be more disciplined and closer to the order of the Romans than the Turks.

Francesco Sansovino

#10. People are perfectly capable of ruining their own lives by very themselves without taking any wrong guidance from outside!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. An uneducated society will eventually turn into something lower than a herd of animals!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. In a country where people are afraid of criticizing the government, many things must be going horrible! In such countries people must know that a society of cowards will always be remembered as a society of honourless people!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. Great ideas behave like the Sun. Even in the middle of nowhere, they find people and shine on them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. A society with lynch culture needs a big zoo, not for the animals definitely, but for the very people themselves!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. Some people has the ability to see the winter as the spring season! Such positive minds can reach the farthest places!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. It is obvious that most people are not living the life they want to live! The easiest solution for this problem is to give up the life you want to live. And the hardest solution is this: Give up everything which prevents you to live the life you want to live!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#17. A planet with no mountains, no storms and no earthquakes will create a planet of weak people!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. To feel free, create a fog around yourself! And how can you do this? Be silent! When you are silent, people will not notice you much! You will be invisible, you will be inside the fog!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#19. Denial itself was institutionalized as a government function. Since 1923, the Turkish government has spent tens of millions of dollars in a concerted disinformation campaign to delude the world at large and, perhaps more important, its own people.

Eric Bogosian

#20. It is not enough to have a light; it must be shared with others! For the darkness to diminish, we must eagerly share the truth!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#21. Whatever their ideas or ideologies or religions are, always get along well with people!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#22. When people like the path you walk and the style you walk in that path, they will start following you!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#23. I see two opposite tendencies in Turkish society: people feel demoralized, they lose the interest in politics and retreat to their private lives; or they become very angry and even more politicized, and radicalized. Both trends are troublesome.

Elif Safak

#24. These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

Orhan Pamuk

#25. Don't pull people into your own storm! Let them stay safe outside your storm!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#26. If people don't feel any emptiness when you leave a place, then it means you were an emptiness for them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#27. The greatest gift you can leave to humanity is the beautiful trace you left behind yourself that invites people to reason, science and peace!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#28. You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.

Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

#29. Don't live in the world as if you were renting or here only for the summer, but act as if it was your father's house ... Believe in seeds, earth, and the sea, but people above all. Love clouds, machines, and books, but people above all. Nazim Hikmet, 20th century Turkish poet

Nahid Rachlin

#30. It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people and their emotions closer to my readers, not explain Turkish politics.

Orhan Pamuk