“The Aegean is not a Greek lake. The Aegean is not a Turkish lake. Therefore, the Aegean is not even a lake.”

Süleyman Demirel

“I’m on a long and narrow road … What state I’m in, I do not know … I’m going day and night.”

Âşık Veysel

“Any patriot who loved his motherland in those days had thought in the same way as ourselves… How can one hand give a noise?”

Yörük Ali Efe

“The people is like a garden, we are supposed to be its gardeners!”

Ziya Gökalp

“Every evil in the world always comes from ignorance.”

İmam Evzai

“Let’s love, be loved, this world shall be left to no one.”

Yunus Emre

“It’s necessary to try the impossible, to see the limitations of the possibility.”

Fatih Sultan Mehmet

“One reaps what one sows.” 

Seda Sayan

“Believers are each other’s mirrors.”

Elif Shafak

“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”

Orhan Pamuk