Jalal Talabani (1933–2017) Iraqi politician
Abdel Hamid Zebari (December 25, 2007) "Turkish planes strike inside Iraq: Kurdish official", Agence France-Presse.
Source: Turkey's aid will never be forgotten: Albanian PM (November 28, 2019) https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/turkeys-aid-will-never-be-forgotten-albanian-pm/1657618
Jalal Talabani (1933–2017) Iraqi politician
Abdel Hamid Zebari (December 25, 2007) "Turkish planes strike inside Iraq: Kurdish official", Agence France-Presse.
“Turkey is a country that takes love as a basis and that refrains from hatred.”
Harun Yahya (1956) Turkish author
21 April 2013.
A9 TV addresses, 2013
“Turkey, like every country, has a right to defend its territory and its airspace.”
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Remarks by President Obama and President Hollande of France in Joint Press Conference https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/24/remarks-president-obama-and-president-hollande-france-joint-press (November 24, 2015) <br class="br">2015
Biz Stone (1974) American blogger; co-founder of Twitter
“Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone talks about turkeys and Farm Sanctuary” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmemxjLriUI, ad for Farm Sanctuary (18 October 2011), reported in “Twitter founder Biz Stone likes turkeys, wishes people were more like them” https://venturebeat.com/2011/11/12/biz-stone-likes-turkeys/, in VentureBeat.com (12 November 2011).
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and the first President of Turkey
As quoted in Atatürk'ün Söylev ve Demeçleri, Volume II, p. 215
“I say we pardon the turkeys, but not our elected officials.”
Larisa Alexandrovna (1971) Ukrainian-American journalist, essayist, poet
Congress gets a vacation, but what about the troops? http://www.rawstory.com/exclusives/contributors/lame_vacations_1129.htm.
Ekrem İmamoğlu (1970) Turkish politician, mayor of Istanbul starting in 2019
As quoted in Mayor of Istanbul: Turkey badly managed refugees https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07gyxry
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859–1925) British politician
The Middle East, Abstracts and Index, Volume 30, Part 4, p. 39
Misattributed
“The only thing I could think of was turkey neck and turkey gizzards and I felt very depressed.”
Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar
Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 6
Context: Then he just stood there in front of me and I kept on staring at him. The only thing I could think of was turkey neck and turkey gizzards and I felt very depressed.