Minister of Foreign Affairs Hakan Fidan: We have learned many beautiful lessons from the Ottomans and the Seljuks, but we are a nation that belongs to this age.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Hakan Fidan: We are a state that inherited the Ottoman Empire from the Seljuks, and the Republic from the Ottoman Empire. This situation is also reflected in our foreign policy. We have learned many beautiful lessons from the Ottomans and the Seljuks, but we are a nation that belongs to this age.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Hakan Fidan: We have learned many beautiful lessons from the Ottomans and the Seljuks, but we are a nation that belongs to this age.

Theologian Cemil Kılıç: They said to me, ‘You are a civil servant, you cannot make statements, you cannot have television or radio programs, or write columns in newspapers’ and then they dismissed me.

AK Party Spokesperson Ömer Çelik: CHP Chairman Özgür Özel disrespectfully targeted the command staff of the Turkish Armed Forces.