In the News Quotes Archive - Page 35 of 36

The National,

August 22, 2017

“This is an alliance of convenience to get rid of common enemies. It lasted this long only because of the Saudi-led military intervention. The alliance was never sustainable because Saleh and Houthis are enemies and they never trusted each other.”

France24,

August 17, 2017

“I don’t think Turkey, in my view, is trying to up the ante in its conflict with Germany… Turkey needs Germany a lot more than Germany needs Turkey.”

Deutsche Welle,

August 15, 2017

“What’s striking about today’s abuses isn’t that they’re innovative…—most would have quite normal in the 1990s—but rather that they represent a very clear rolling back of reforms that the AKP itself had implemented.”

Politico,

August 10, 2017

“My strong sense is that much of this is generated by prosecutors and facilitated by judges who are guessing at what the government wants… You have an environment where everyone is trying to demonstrate their loyalty.”

Middle East Eye,

June 22, 2017

“The main problem with Saudi Arabia’s involvement was the regionalisation of the conflict, its transition from a civil war to a regionalised crisis. Now with Qatar isolated, it is likely that Yemen will become the battleground for this Gulf crisis.”

Al-Monitor,

January 1, 1970

“If Congress wants to sanction Turkey, then it needs to sanction Turkey in the right ways and with an eye towards getting results — not just [doing] things that will piss them off.”

Washington Times,

January 1, 1970

“[Trump’s] embrace [of Erdogan] and that willingness to ignore authoritarian repression and human rights abuses inside Turkey does not extend beyond the White House [and] many here in Washington have deep concerns with those issues.”

HuffPost,

January 1, 1970

“Trump has sanctioned Turkey before, but he does this in such a transactional way that the message is, I will sanction you now but you just have to give me one concession and I will lift it.”

Al-Monitor,

January 1, 1970

“Regardless of the oil’s origin and how many times it changed hands, it appears to have come to Turkey through Kurdish middlemen and smugglers. This is all part of the war economy we’ve been tracking along the Turkish-Syrian border.”

Al-Monitor,

January 1, 1970

“As in the case of Demirtas, the Turkish government has simply invested too much politically in demonizing Kavala. It is possible that Turkey will comply with the ruling, but I don’t expect it.”

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