Turki

Saya suka Turki. Saya pertama kali bepergian ke sana pada usia awal dua puluhan, ketika saya terobsesi dengan kampanye Dardanella tahun 1915. Saya langsung menyukai orang-orangnya – berani, tabah, murah hati, ramah dan patriotik, meski sedikit condong pada teori konspirasi. Saya melihat Turki sebagai model bagi kawasan ini. ~ Daniel Hannan

Turki memiliki konstitusi sekuler. Ini adalah masyarakat demokratis di mana Anda memiliki kesetaraan gender antara laki-laki dan perempuan. Ini adalah anggota NATO dan sedang dalam pembicaraan aksesi dengan Uni Eropa. ~ Soner Cagaptay

Turki (Turki: Türkiye), secara resmi Republik Turki dan Türkiye, adalah Eurasian negara yang membentang di seluruh Anatolian peninsula di barat daya Asia dan itu Wilayah Balkan dari tenggara Eropa.

Kutipan

Dia adalah penguasa lemah yang membutuhkan agama untuk menegakkan pemerintahannya; seolah-olah dia akan menjebak rakyatnya. Rakyat saya akan mempelajari prinsip-prinsip demokrasi, ajaran kebenaran dan ajaran ilmu pengetahuan. Takhayul harus dihilangkan. ~ Atatürk

Orang Turki bisa dibunuh, tapi mereka tidak akan pernah bisa ditaklukkan. ~ Napoleon

Turki dan Siprus khususnya, meskipun secara geologis Asia, memiliki unsur budaya Eropa dan dapat dianggap sebagai bagian dari Eropa. ~ Encyclopædia Britannica

[Kekaisaran Ottoman] yang tubuhnya yang sakit tidak didukung oleh pola makan yang ringan dan teratur, melainkan dengan pengobatan yang ampuh, yang terus menerus menguras tenaganya. ~ Montesquieu

Di bawah ini adalah Sumpah Mahasiswa yang harus dibaca oleh semua siswa Turki pada setiap awal hari sekolah hingga tahun 2013. Naskah aslinya ditulis pada tahun 1933 oleh Reşit Galip, Menteri Pendidikan saat itu. Telah diubah beberapa kali sejak itu, versi berikutnya adalah dari tahun 1997. "Betapa bahagianya orang yang mengatakan saya orang Turki" (Ne mutlu Türküm diyene) adalah kutipan dari pidato oleh Atatürk. Referensi ke Atatürk tidak ada dalam aslinya, mereka ditambahkan pada tahun 1972, pada saat itu Militer Turki telah melakukan dua coups (di dalam 1960 dan 1971), sebagian karena mereka takut negaranya menyimpang dari cita-cita Atatürk. (Di masa lalu, Militer Turki secara tradisional memandang dirinya sebagai penjaga warisan Atatürk.) *Saya orang Turki, jujur ​​dan pekerja keras.
Prinsip saya adalah melindungi yang lebih muda, menghormati yang lebih tua, untuk mencintai tanah air dan bangsaku lebih dari diriku sendiri.
Cita-cita saya adalah bangkit, maju.
O Hebat Atatürk!
Di jalan yang telah Anda buka, saya bersumpah untuk terus berjalan menuju tujuan yang telah Anda tetapkan.
Biarkan keberadaan saya menjadi hadiah bagi keberadaan Turki.

Betapa bahagianya orang yang berkata, "Saya orang Turki!"

Asli:
Türk'üm, doğruyum, çalışkanım,
İlkem: küçüklerimi korumak, büyüklerimi saymak, yurdumu, milletimi özümden çok sevmektir.
Ülküm: yükselmek, ileri gitmektir.
Ey Büyük Atatürk!
Açtığın yolda, gösterdiğin hedefe durmadan yürüyeceğime ant içerim.
Varlığım Türk varlığına armağan olsun.

Ne mutlu Türk'üm diyene!

Kutipan tentang

A

• Terlepas dari otoritas mana yang memerintahkannya dan alasan hukumnya, yang pasti pemerintah, termasuk presiden, kesal dengan semakin banyaknya kritik terhadap mereka dalam hal penanganan pasca [[Turki 2023]. –Gempa bumi Suriah|gempa bumi.]] [Dan dengan pemilihan umum pada bulan Mei,] pemerintah jelas tidak senang dengan kritik ini dan ingin mengontrol komunikasi
  • Yaman Akdeniz, seorang profesor hukum di Universitas Istanbul Bilgi Penduduk Turki kesulitan mengakses Twitter setelah gempa (Diperbarui 8 Februari 2023 pukul 22:23 EST Diterbitkan 8 Februari 2023 pukul 18:06 EST) Oleh Paulina Villegas dan Naomi Nix

• Turki tidak menyerahkan haknya Azerbaijan, Syria, Libya, dan Mediterania Timur berada di bawah kekuasaan pihak-pihak yang berkuasa dan tidak adil, yang ingin menyampaikan pernyataan-pernyataan besar; ia mengumpulkan kekuatan yang dibutuhkannya untuk mengklaim hak-haknya bila diperlukan. Pertunjukan spektakuler yang ditunjukkan oleh UAV bersenjata, Kirpis (“Landak,” pengangkut pasukan lapis baja berat), meriam Turki, dan semua produk industri pertahanan, hanya menunjukkan kekuatan keadilan.
  • Yasin Aktay, Baku mengirimkan pesan 'keras dan jelas' ke seluruh dunia setelah perang Karabakh (13 Desember 2020)
• …Dia adalah penguasa lemah yang membutuhkan agama untuk menegakkan pemerintahannya; seolah-olah dia akan menjebak rakyatnya. Rakyat saya akan mempelajari prinsip-prinsip demokrasi, ajaran kebenaran dan ajaran ilmu pengetahuan. Takhayul harus dihilangkan. Biarkan mereka beribadah sesuka mereka; setiap orang dapat mengikuti hati nuraninya sendiri, asalkan hati nuraninya tidak mengganggu akal sehat atau mengganggu kebebasan sesamanya.
  • Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, seperti dikutip dalam Atatürk: The Biography of the founder of Modern Turkey, oleh Andrew Mango; "Dalam sebuah buku yang diterbitkan pada tahun 1928, Grace Ellison mengutip [Atatürk], mungkin pada tahun 1926-27", Grace Ellison Turki Hari Ini (London Hutchinson, 1928)

• …O Anak Turki generasi mendatang! Seperti yang Anda lihat, bahkan dalam keadaan dan kondisi seperti ini, adalah tugas Anda untuk menyelamatkan Kemerdekaan dan Republik Turki! Kekuatan yang Anda perlukan adalah hadir dalam darah mulia yang mengalir di pembuluh darahmu!
  • Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Pidato Kepada Pemuda Turki (20 Oktober 1927)

• Republik Turki tidak bisa menjadi negara syekh, darwis, dan murid. Tatanan yang paling benar dan nyata adalah tatanan peradaban.
  • Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, seperti dikutip dalam Atatürk'ün Söylev ve Demeçleri, Volume II, hal. 215

• Obor yang dipegang bangsa Turki di tangan dan pikirannya, saat berbaris di jalan kemajuan dan peradaban, adalah [[Ilmu|sains] yang positif].
  • Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, pidato pada peringatan sepuluh tahun Republik, 1933

• Tuan Turki yang sebenarnya adalah petani.
  • Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, seperti dikutip dalam Balita AS Mengimpor sebagai Pengusaha Turki oleh Thomas Chi, OilUSA.Co, 1 Juni 2011, hal. 27

B

• Orang Turki bisa dibunuh, tapi mereka tidak akan pernah bisa ditaklukkan.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte, seperti dikutip dalam NAPOLEON Dengan Kata-katanya Sendiri

C

• Jika ISIS adalah anomali di Islam, Turki adalah norma dalam Islam. Turki memiliki sekuler konstitusi. Itu sebuah masyarakat demokratis di mana Anda memiliki kesetaraan gender antara pria dan wanita. Itu adalah anggota NATO dan sedang dalam pembicaraan aksesi dengan Uni Eropa. Mereka adalah sahabat Barat dan Amerika Serikat dan baru kemarin sepakat untuk memulihkan hubungan diplomatik dengan Israel.
  • Soner Cagaptay, "Pembalasan Serangan Turki di Istanbul Akan Seperti Itu 'Hujan Dari Neraka'" (29 Juni 2016), CNN

D

• Charge of inferiority is an old dodge. It has been made available for oppression on many occasions... When Russia wanted to take possession of a part of the Ottoman Empire, the Turks were 'an inferior race.'
  • Frederick Douglass, "What the Black Man Wants", speech in Boston, Massachusetts (1865).

E

• As to the territorial limits of Europe, they may seem relatively clear on its seaward flanks, but many island groups far to the north and west—Svalbard, the Faroes, Iceland, and the Madeira and Canary islands—are considered European, while Greenland (though tied politically to Denmark) is conventionally allocated to North America. Furthermore, the Mediterranean coastlands of North Africa and southwestern Asia also exhibit some European physical and cultural affinities. Turkey and Cyprus in particular, while geologically Asian, possess elements of European culture and may be regarded as parts of Europe.
  • Encyclopædia Britannica, Europe

F

• People in the judiciary and the police carried out investigations and launched this case, as their duties normally require. Apparently they weren't informed of the fact that corruption and bribery have ceased to be criminal acts in Turkey.
  • Tim Franks, "Turkey's Fethullah Gulen denies corruption probe links" (27 January 2014), BBC News, United Kingdom: British Broadcasting Corporation.

G

• Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kowtow before any United States proconsul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.
  • Andrei Gromyko, New York Herald Tribune (30 June 1953)

H

• I love Turkey. I first traveled there in my early twenties, when I was obsessed by the 1915 Dardanelles campaign. I immediately liked the people — brave, stoical, generous, hospitable and patriotic, if a little inclined to conspiracy theories. I saw Turkey as a model for the region, a successful, Western-oriented Muslim democracy.
  • Daniel Hannan, "The republic will survive Trump, but will the Republicans?" (3 September 2018), The Washington Examiner

• Turkey had been our ally in the World War. Its unfortunate result was as heavy a burden for Turkey as it was for us. The great and ingenious reconstructor of the new Turkey gave his Allies, beaten by fate, the first example of resurrection. While Turkey, thanks to the realistic attitude of her State leadership, preserved her independent attitude Yugoslavia fell a victim to British intrigues.
  • Adolf Hitler, addressed to the Reichstag on 4 May 1941.

J

• Relations between Turkey and Greece are the most fractious of any pair of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) 29 member countries. Disputes range from contested offshore hydrocarbon exploration to Athens granting political refugee status to two of eight Turkish officers who fled to Greece after the failed July 2016 coup attempt (Hürriyet Daily News, May 24, 2018). Now, Turkey is protesting Greece’s activities off its Aegean coast. On May 12, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hami Aksoy stated that Turkey claims Greece does not respect the demilitarized status of its islands in the eastern Aegean, adding that NATO warships operating in the Aegean should not use Greek ports there for visits and refueling (Mfa.gov.tr, May 12, 2019). Aksoy’s concerns mask a broader anxiety in Ankara that NATO and the United States may be planning to deepen their military presence in the eastern Mediterranean to include more bases in Greece and its Aegean islands.
  • Turkey Fumes as Greece Offers Use of Eastern Aegean Islands to NATO, US Eurasia Daily Monitor, Volume: 16 Issue: 80,(The Jamestown Foundation], by John C. K. Daly, (31 May 2019)

K

• Understand this: Turkey is a country whose warnings should be taken seriously and listened to. Don't test Turkey's patience. Try to win its friendship.
  • Serdar Kılıç, Twitter (24 November 2015).

L

• I am one of the servants of Allah. We do our duty of fighting for the sake of the religion of Allah. It is also our duty to send a call to all the people of the world to enjoy this great light and to embrace Islam and experience the happiness in Islam. Our primary mission is nothing but the furthering of this religion. ... Let not the West be taken in by those who say that Muslims choose nothing but slaughtering. Their brothers in East Europe, in Turkey and in Albania have been guided by Allah to submit to Islam and to experience the bliss of Islam. Unlike those, the European and the American people and some of the Arabs are under the influence of Jewish media.
  • Osama bin Laden, Interview with ABC reporter John Miller (May 1998)

M

• The European Union and many of its countries, which used to take initiatives in the United Nations for peaceful settlements of conflict, are now one of the most important war assets of the U.S./NATO front. Many countries have also been drawn into complicity in breaking international law through U.S./U.K./NATO wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and so on.
  • Mairead Maguire in The Disturbing Expansion of the Military-Industrial Complex, Common Dreams, (14 October 2014)

O

• Turkey, like every country, has a right to defend its territory and its airspace.
  • Barack H. Obama II, Remarks by President Obama and President Hollande of France in Joint Press Conference (24 November 2015)

P

• 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, The Age of Reason (1793), Part I.

R

• Removing rubble, searching for victims and providing them with medical assistance in areas that have experience the most severe destruction. About earthquake in Turkey-Syria.
  • Russian Defense Ministry Russia Sending Aid to Turkey, Syria After Devastating Earthquake (Updated: one day ago)

S

• [I]n Germany we are giving work to two million people from Turkey.
  • Uli Stielike, as quoted in Hamburger Abendblatt 20 November 2003
  • Original German: [I]n Deutschland zwei Millionen Menschen aus der Türkei Arbeit geben.

• We all know the Turkish state is in a position to control its borders. It is not failed state, it is a proper functioning state so we have to negotiate with Turkey for its responsibilities. It is not like Libya which is ungovernable.
  • EU Leader, Krzysztof Szczerski, quoted on The Guardian (February 18, 2016), "Poland will not accept cut in benefits for those already in UK, says aide"

• “…the planet from which the little prince came is the asteroid known as B-612. This asteroid has only once been seen through a telescope. That was by a Turkish astronomer, in 1909. On making his discovery, the astronomer had presented it to the International Astronomical Congress, in a great demonstration. But he was in Turkish costume, and so nobody would believe what he said. …Fortunately, however, for the reputation of Asteroid B-612, a Turkish dictator made a law that his subjects, under pain of death, should change to European costume. So in 1920 the astronomer gave his demonstration all over again, dressed with impressive style and elegance. And this time everybody accepted his report.”
  • The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (translated by Katherine Woods), Piccolo Books in association with Heinemann, Pan Books, London, 1974 (first 1945). Quoted in Talageri, S. (2000). The Rigveda: A historical analysis. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.

U

• Turkey doesn’t understand that, for the United States, buying a sophisticated Russian air defense system is a major national security issue that can’t be papered over. But Americans don’t understand that all their tough talk about leveling sanctions against Turkey if the Russian arms sale goes through only plays into Turkish leaders’ hands politically...
  Speaking at a forum on Ankara-Washington relations hosted by the Hudson Institute in Washington, Hudson fellow Blaise Misztal said that, to President Tayyip Erdogan and his political coalition partners, “sanctions and kicking you out of 'NATO is a winning policy” because it fuels long-standing and growing anti-Americanism in their nationalist-leaning array of parties. Since 2014, and particularly after a failed coup attempt in 2016 that many Turks believe was known in Washington before it was launched, Erdogan “is becoming closer to [Vladimir] Putin, Bashir al Assad, Iran and China” to burnish his nationalist credentials, Misztal said. As an example of how this plays out, Erdogan told his parliament Wednesday the nation is “passing through a very critical period, from economy to security.” He warned about plotters still inside its borders and their outside supporters. At the same time as Erdogan spoke, a Turkish newspaper reported the defense ministry is sending troops to Russia to receive familiarization training for the S-400 air defense system.
  • The U.S. Naval Institute News, Panel: US/Turkey Dispute Over Buying Russian Air Defense System Has Deeper Roots by John Grady, (22 May 2019)

V

• …I think that I have said that at three or four meetings before rather than us talking about the problem of Cyprus which makes that it becomes a problem for the Republic as it is worldwide known we ought to talk about the problem of Turkey, it is really a 100% Turkish problem that they're not acting in the way in which they should be acting and if that's the case well shove it to them!
  • Rudi Vis, [At the Friends of Cyprus meeting in the Jubilee Room at the House of Commons, 3rd July 2007] (see External links for transcript).

• I hate calumny so much that I do not want even to impute foolishness to the Turks, although I detest them as tyrants over women and enemies of the arts.
  • Voltaire, The Philosophical Dictionary selected and translated by H.I. Woolf (1924)

W

• We became acquainted we found the people, whether Christian or Turkish, prevailingly of a friendly, kindly, progressive type, as is often the case with simple-minded people in times of peace.
  • George Edward White (1940). Adventuring with Anatolia College. Herald-Register. pp. p. 18. 

• I always liked the common Turkish people unless they were stirred to passion by militarists.
  • George Edward White (1940). Adventuring with Anatolia College. Herald-Register. pp. p. 18. 

• In the College two classes were called preparatory, while four bore the ordinary college class names. The schools from which our students came did not carry them far. When Americans first came to Turkey, hardly any vernacular was taught anywhere. Instruction was in classic tongues and religious lore. But our students for the most part came with a purpose in modern life. They wanted to attain a worth-while and useful manhood and they felt that the College could give them a start.
  • George Edward White (1940). Adventuring with Anatolia College. Herald-Register. pp. p. 19. 

• One student told me in after years that when he came to Marsovan [a city in Turkey] he was really illiterate, that is, he could not fairly read his native tongue, or any other. But he had no chance of learning more in his native village. For a number of months he was cow-boy for an American family, and eagerly studying too.
  • George Edward White (1940). Adventuring with Anatolia College. Herald-Register. pp. p. 19. 

• Another time I was riding alone with a Circassian, and in the talk of man to man in such companionship, asked him a bit about his occupation and his affairs. "Sometimes I get a traveller to escort, like you", he replied, "and then I take him, but my regular business is smuggling tobacco. Every man in our village has a regular job, some are smugglers, some are farmers, and some are thieves". I asked him about his chance of getting caught, and he promptly said, "There are two kinds of smugglers; one kind gets caught and one kind doesn't get caught", and he added a pious expression of gratitude to the good Lord that he never had been put to shame yet. We knew very well that the mounted police of Anatolia were largely recruited from among the robbers and smugglers of the mountain roads. One of the most effective ways of securing official employment, and who knows what promotion later, was to acquire the reputation of a daring hold-up man on the mountains."
  • George Edward White (1940). Adventuring with Anatolia College. Herald-Register. pp. p. 25. 

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 823.

• The unspeakable Turk should be immediately struck out of the question, and the country be left to honest European guidance.
  • Thomas Carlyle, letter to a meeting at St. James Hall, London, 1876. See also his article on 'Das Niebelungen Lied in Westminster Review. 1831. No. 29. Also his Letter to George Howard, Nov. 24, 1876.

• [Turks] one and all, bag and baggage, shall I hope clear out from the province they have desolated and profaned.
  • William Gladstone, speech (May 7, 1877).

• The Lofty Gate of the Royal Tent.
  • Mahomet II. It was translated "La Porte Sublima" by the Italians. See E. S. Creasy, History of the Ottoman Turks, p. 96, ed. 1877.

• [The Ottoman Empire] whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
  • Montesquieu, Persian Letters, I, 19.

• We have on our hands a sick man,—a very sick man. [The sick man of Europe, the Turk.]
  • Nicholas I, of Russia. Conversation with Sir George Hamilton Seymour. (1853). See Blue Book (1854).

• [The Ottoman Empire] has the body of a sick old man, who tried to appear healthy, although his end was near.
  • Sir Thomas Roe, Ambassador to Constantinople. See Buchanan, Letter, 375.

• Your Majesty may think me an impatient sick man, and that the Turks are even sicker.
  • Voltaire to Catherine II. In the Rundschau (April, 1878).

Disputed

• For nearly five hundred years, these rules and theories of an Arab Shaikh and the interpretations of generations of lazy and good-for-nothing priests have decided the civil and criminal law of Turkey. They have decided the form of the Constitution, the details of the lives of each Turk, his food, his hours of rising and sleeping the shape of his clothes, the routine of the midwife who produced his children, what he learned in his schools, his customs, his thoughts-even his most intimate habits. Islam – this theology of an immoral Arab – is a dead thing. Possibly it might have suited tribes in the desert. It is no good for modern, progressive state. God’s revelation! There is no God! These are only the chains by which the priests and bad rulers bound the people down. A ruler who needs religion is a weakling. No weaklings should rule.
  • Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, as quoted in Grey Wolf: Mustafa Kemal – An intimate study of a dictator (1932) by Harold Courtenay Armstrong, pp. 199-200

See also

• European Union

External links

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• "Ottoman Anatolia: #5: Mountain life (1892)", George Baloglou, Associate Professor of Mathematics, State University of New York - Oswego