My father was an atheist and he always described himself as a Serb. OK, maybe we were Muslim for 250 years, but we were orthodox before that and deep down we were always Serbs, religion cannot change that. We only became Muslims to survive the Turks. Emir Kusturica
Armenia was always a minority nation. The Armenians were annihilated by the Russians and then by the Turks. Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Russia demanded Armenian territories, very cleverly using long-standing, bitter fights between Armenians and Turks. Ernst Kaltenbrunner
The European policy is invariably the maintenance of the status quo, and you will do nothing for the subject races unless we, by taking initiative, make you realize that helping us against the Turks is the lesser of the evils. Eleftherios Venizelos
It is up to the people to feed the dogs; it's up to the Cardias to feed the Turks. Kurdish Proverb
Rather the cruelty of the Turks than the justice of the Bedouins. Arabic Proverb