After The Ankara Bombings On October 10,

Yeah, We Should All Line Up Along The Bosphorus Bridge And Puff As Hard As We Can To Shove This City In The Direction Of The West. If That Doesn't Work, We'll Try The Other Way, See If We Can Veer To The East. It's No Good To Be In Between. International Politics Does Not Appreciate Ambiguity.

How Can Love Be Worthy Of Its Name If One Selects Solely The Pretty Things And Leaves Out The Hardships? It Is Easy To Enjoy The Good And Dislike The Bad. Anybody Can Do That. The Real Challenge Is To Love The Good And The Bad Together, Not Because You Need To Take The Rough With The Smooth But Because You Need To Go Beyond Such Descriptions And Accept Love In Its Entirety.

God Is A Meticulous Clockmaker. So Precise Is His Order That Everything On Earth Happens In Its Own Time. Neither A Minute Late Nor A Minute Early. And For Everyone Without Exception, The Clock Works Accurately. For Each There Is A Time To Love And A Time To Die.

Eternity Does Not Mean Infinite Time, But Simply Timelessness

Many Analysts Compare Turkey With Countries In The Middle East, But I Think We Need To Compare It With Russia. Both Countries Come From A Tradition Of Empire, And Also From A Tradition Of The Strong State.