Ankara Quotes

• Mr. Obama needs to make a phone call to Ankara and have a serious conversation about why the current government in Turkey isn't going to seal its border, why it doesn't take a stronger position against the Islamic State.

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  Vijay Prashad

  Islamic   Phones   Government  

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Strifes will arise through the period. Watch for them near the Davis Strait in the attempts there for the keeping of the life line to land open. Watch for them in Libya and in Egypt, in Ankara and in Syria, through the straits about those areas above Australia, in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf.

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  Edgar Cayce

  Ocean   Egypt   Land  

  2280

• After the Ankara bombings on October 10, people were asked to hold a minute of silence, but many refused. Our society can't even unite in grief to honor the victims. We've lost our empathy. That's maybe the worst.

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  Elif Safak

  Grief   People   Silence  

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  2087

• My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to 'Satisfaction' at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend's house in Ankara, Turkey, where my family was living at the time. In the middle of our sleepover, my friend's dad stopped the record when he heard the words 'girlie action!'

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  Gayle King

  Memories   Dad   Party  

  4549

• The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey's model seems to be winning.

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  Mustafa Akyol

  Spring   Winning   Turkeys  

  3676

• I used to be someone who would not even tread on an ant. But this is a war for honor and self-defense. A 100 percent elimination policy (by Ankara of the Kurds) has forced me to defense and it has become a glorious defense of a people.

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  Abdullah Ocalan

  War   Self   People  

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