Bulent Ecevit

“We wrote nationalism not on the street walls, but on the lands of Cyprus, on the sea beds of the Aegean.”

“This is not a military operation, it is a peace operation.”

“Neither the oppressed nor the oppressor, a humane and just order.”

“The land belongs to the one who works it, the water to the one who uses it.”

“Hope is the bread of the revolutionary.”

“If necessary, we will eat simit, but we will not compromise our honor.”

“We have proven that we do not have our eyes on anyone's land, and we have proven that we will not let anyone trample on our own land.”

“I am a leftist Kemalist.”