Turkey and the Arab Spring Quotes

“Governments often keep their populace in permanent states of vigilance or anxiety against foreign enemies as a control mechanism—the politics of fear.”
― Graham E. Fuller, Turkey and the Arab Spring: Leadership in the Middle East

“As liberal columnist Şahin Alpay points out, however, the fundamental division in Turkish society is not between Islamists and secularists but between those who oppose a military-bureaucratic “tutelary” regime and those who support it.”
― Graham E. Fuller, Turkey and the Arab Spring: Leadership in the Middle East

“Yet of course nationalism is always “imagined”; identity is what you think you are.”
― Graham E. Fuller, Turkey and the Arab Spring: Leadership in the Middle East

“It would assume that bilateral problems could be worked out through goodwill, active diplomacy and transparency rather than suspicions and a search for “enemies.”
― Graham E. Fuller, Turkey and the Arab Spring: Leadership in the Middle East