“We said that pledges made in the peace process need to be fulfilled as soon as possible.”

Balkan country, Caucasian country, neighbor to Africa, Black Sea country, Caspian Sea, all these.

Zero problems with neighbors’ is a value. But another equally important value is to establish peace.

Our future is our sense of common destiny.

If any harm is to come to Turkey’s border security, if Turkey reaches the conclusion that this garden of peace is being threatened.

The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which emerged far away from Africa or Asia, which is the main land of human history.

If you can serve everyone who visits you, you must be doing well in business.

Turkey has worked alongside its allies from the beginning.

It is prepared for any eventuality. We will take the necessary measures to reduce the risks related to cross-border security.

Every family in Konya has at least one shoemaker in their midst, and I am one of those families.

As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.

Today the search for a new global order is under way.

Some things are difficult to adapt to.

Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country,

The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.

When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.

In a certain sense, if I have an idea about you that I believe, I’ve degraded you. I’ve made you into something very small. This is the way of human beings, this is what we do to each other.

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.

I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.

Ah, that would be superficial indeed! In reality, those shells, which once were alive in water and are now dead and decomposed, were made thus by time not Nature.

When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!

A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.