Mustafa Eric

“On a visit to a mosque that had been formerly been an Armenian church in the town of Antep (now Gaziantep), the current custodian, the imam, happened to be inside. The imam suggested to the bishop that this holy space belonged to both of them and they prayed together. If politicians in Ankara warned that the ordinary population of Eastern Anatolia was still hostile toward Armenians, this was not the impression our group received. On the contrary, many people not only remembered Armenians but seemed to think that their return was a good omen.”
― Thomas de Waal, Great Catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide

“Thomas Bailey, a diplomatic historian, has asserted that the dey of Algiers might deserve “indirect” credit as one of the “Founding Fathers” of the United States because the plight of the imprisoned Americans did so much to prove the need for a new federal Constitution, with a system of taxation that could raise the funds to pay for their ransom.”
― Denise A. Spellberg, Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders

“Many of those who survived stressed that they did so due to Muslim families like these, or else to the bravery of ordinary “good Turks,” and also Kurds, who protected Armenians. For example, a survivor from Adana said, “We were like brothers. Our Turks said later, ‘Whoever was the cause of this genocide, may God blind his eyes.’ They did not wish our death. In fact if it weren’t for these good Turks, we would all have been killed, too. All the orders came from Istanbul.”38”
― Thomas de Waal, Great Catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide

“Belediye binasının ikinci katındaki Rizeli, kuyruktaki vatandaşları azarlayan önemli ve meşgul bir adamdı.”
― Orhan Pamuk