12 Turks Quotes for You to Enjoy

One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way. Orhan Pamuk

Life Me History Class Humanity People Gender Realistic Busy Society Other Side Secret Way Details Voices Attention Catching Very Get Trying Interested Turks Paying Lives Street

When I was 26, I founded Peaceworks as a food company that brought together Israelis, Arabs, Turks, and others in conflict regions to make and sell various food products from the Middle East. That economic cooperation helped bridge divides and cultivate mutual understanding among neighbors. Daniel Lubetzky

Food Together Conflict Understanding Others Neighbors East Arabs Mutual Mutual Understanding Brought Various Economic Divides Make Israelis Cultivate Sell Middle Middle East Regions Turks Products Helped Bridge Company Cooperation Founded Among

I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks came and brought Islam. There were three brothers in the family. One was Orthodox Christian. The other two took Islam to survive. Emir Kusturica

Family Three Islam Living Christian Illustration Other Took Eastern Brothers Brought Bosnian Am Came Were Mixing Very Survive Converting To Survive Turks Poor Grandparents Lived Orthodox Two

When I was in Turks & Caicos, a bug jumped out of my room service menu. That kind of freaked me out. Jacquelyn Jablonski

Service Me Out Kind Freaked Menu Bug Room Turks Room Service

Much has been said and continues to be said of what little concern the Turks had for the Acropolis treasures. Melina Mercouri

Has-Been Had Concern Said Been Little Turks Much Treasures

I have had it up to here with the prosecutions, the government's attitude, the judiciary, the media's stance and the majority of Turks who view the Kurdish people's justified cause through a nationalist lens. Osman Baydemir

Attitude Government People Cause Judiciary Through Had Majority Kurdish Up Nationalist Justified Turks Lens Stance View Who Media Here

Celebrating historic triumphs is a favorite pastime for many Turks. Tales of how Turkic peoples emerged from Central Asia, crossed the steppes to Anatolia, established the Ottoman Empire and ruled for centuries over large swaths of Europe and Asia are the subject of countless legends, poems and books. Stephen Kinzer

People Books Ruled Favorite Emerged Crossed Triumphs Poems Countless Empire Over Tales How Subject Historic Celebrating Pastime Legends Established Central Asia Turks Centuries Europe Large Many

As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, Riyadh, and Baghdad, Kuwait has survived by playing Turks off Persians, Arabs off one another, and the English off everyone. P. J. O'Rourke

Freedom Free Nation Everyone Claimed Has-Been Arabs Arguably Baghdad Another Been Kuwait Off Itself Survived Turks Turn English Playing

The Turks have not been historically good about keeping pressure on ISIS. Dan Crenshaw

Good Pressure About Been Historically Turks Keeping

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