All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. - Thomas Paine

Turkish cuisine is, to my mind, one of the most exciting and accomplished in the world. - Yotam Ottolenghi

If Turkish or Moroccan boys misbehave here, it's up to us to re-educate them and, when necessary, to punish them. - Pim Fortuyn

The Armenian Genocide is such a controversial and very sensitive issue because the Turkish and Armenian people disagree about the facts of what actually happened. I know how strongly Armenians feel about the Genocide, and how it's never been recognised. At the same time, I do not hold today's generation of people accountable. - Khloe Kardashian

The Turkish, Arab and Chinese nationalists who built new nation-states out of the ruins of old empires scorned their old, decrepit rulers as much as they did the foreign imperialists who imposed free trade through gunboats. - Pankaj Mishra

I went to a Turkish hairdresser, and they burned the hair off my ears with a lit taper. They just put the burning candle near your ears and you hear the hair being burned away. And the smell - urggh! - Neil Morrissey

One could reasonably argue that the Turkish pogrom against the Armenians during World War I qualifies as a crime against humanity, as does the United States' ethnic cleansing of Native Americans. - Sebastian Junger

During the Gezi protests and PKK terror campaigns, the unity and solidarity of the Turkish nation were attacked. - Recep Tayyip Erdogan