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With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region.

I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.

That is one of the reasons why we advocate for good relations between the two countries. Turkey understands the needs of the region.

There is a lot that binds Germany to Turkey, and even if we have a difference of opinion on an individual matter, the breadth of our links, our friendship, our strategic ties, is great.

In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept was consumed to its limits. But there is only one way we have not tried: negotiations, peace, and talking.

Turkey is immersed in a profound social and political conflict between secularists, who have been in power since the republic was founded, and an insurgent Islamic-based movement that seeks to increase the role of religion in public life.

Most people don't realize turkeys are friendly, they're social, they're loyal, they have emotions.

Turkey knows the importance of its ties with Israel; it knows it's in the same moderate camp with Israel, the moderate Palestinians and other Muslim countries, and the threat to Turkey is not from us.

Bear in mind how valuable a secular Turkey is for the world.

As the United States shapes and carries out its policies toward Muslim countries, it should do so with Turkey at its side.