If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
The dramatic rise of Turkey in the councils of world power was one of the main geopolitical developments of 2010.
Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy.
Turkey wants a policy of engagement exactly like President Obama's new approach. Policy of engagement, less confrontation, less tense attitude, especially in the region.
The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
Few if any countries understand the growing importance of water as fully as Turkey does.
The discourse of the West and the attitudes of its leaders are important because they influence public debate in Turkey.
Turkey has never been colonized, so it remained as an independent nation after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey's model seems to be winning.
My family is a Jewish Iranian family, but I was born in Turkey and raised in Italy. So it's a very mixed background.
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.
It's probably worth noting that although I'm ethnically Greek, my grandfather was actually born in Turkey and came through Greece on his way to the United States.
Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
The Deputy: [Tasting the blood from the decapitated turkey mascot] It's blood. The Sherrif: [pause] Son of a bitch!
I love lean meats like chicken, turkey. I'm obsessed with sushi and fish in general. I eat a lot of veggies and hummus.
I love Bill Clinton. I think we should make him king. I'm talking the red robe, the turkey leg - everything.
Turkey shares Europe's fundamental values of democracy and the rule of law.
It is very important that the world know that there have been 500 years of peaceful coexistence in Turkey between the Jews and Moslems.
Real ballplayers pass the stuffing by rolling it up in a ball and batting it across the table with a turkey leg.
For decades, Turkey was widely viewed as a reliable NATO ally: prickly at times, but safely in America's corner.
Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.
