100+ Best Turkey Quotes and Turkey Instagram Captions

Best Turkey Quotes

“Turkey was fantastic, Turkey was, like, mystical and such a special place. Just unique, something that’s really hard to describe, such beauty, those mountains, and the stone is kind of, eroded? Special erosion which makes what you see just something that seems, it’s been made for a movie, it’s like something out of fantasy, except it’s real.” – Violante Placido

“Be friends with Turks but never be enemies.” – Gianni de Michelis

“We speak Turkish at home, and I can speak the language. I have a lot of family there – I try to fly to Turkey once a year when I have holidays.” – Emre Can

“To travel along the Bosphorus, be it in a ferry, a motor launch, or a rowboat, is to see the city house by house, neighborhood by neighborhood, and also from afar as a silhouette, an ever-mutating mirage.” – Orhan Pamuk

“The Turkish people are the friendliest I’ve ever met.” – Keeley Hawes

“Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country, Balkan country, Caucasian country, neighbor to Africa, Black Sea country, Caspian Sea, all these.” – Ahmet Davutoglu

“I write with humour about sadness, to introduce an element of sweet to the sour, a bit like Turkish food.” – Elif Safak

“Turkish people live football. Football is a passion of theirs. They demonstrate it with love and affection for their team.” – Pepe

“Turkey is going through an incredible economic, political and social transformation. What is most important is that Turkey has been the owner of this transformation. Ownership has been the key to success.” – Ali Babacan

“In Turkey, butchering was a low-class, degrading job. Now, thanks to me, all the kids want to become butchers.” – Salt Bae

Unique Turkey captions for Instagram

My heart is in Turkey.

Turkey is always a good idea.

Why have abs when you can have kebabs?

Turkey, thank you for making me feel so alive.

Somewhere between living and dreaming, there’s Turkey.

I wonder if Baklava thinks about me too…

Turkey I still want to see you again.

Dancing the night away to the beat of Turkish music.

In Turkey, life is art.

Sipping on Turkish tea with a view of the Bosphorus.

Best Turkey puns for Instagram captions

Istanbul holds the Tur-key to my heart.

Istanbul is a bit bazaar!

I mosque ask you if you love Turkey as much as I do.

Istanbul, where even the cats are purr-fectly content.

Turkey I still want to see you again.

Making the mosque of our time in Turkey.

If someone asks you is Turkey safe, tell them they Ottoman up.

I’m Turkish delighted to be in Istanbul.

Kadıköy? More like Cat-iköy. 

Being in Cappadocia is air-mazing.

Best Istanbul quotes

“Istanbul is a magical seal which unites Europe and Asia since the ancient times. Without a doubt, Istanbul is certainly the most beautiful place of the world.” – Gerard De Nerval

“People were right when they say there is no other place on Earth as beautiful looking as Istanbul.” – François-rené De Chateaubriand

“Nothing beats Istanbul when it comes to street food. The city’s sidewalks are a walkable sampler platter.” – Fuad Alakbarov

“Holy Istanbul! Your name is the most enchanting one of all names which enchants me” – Pierre Loti

“Street vendors are the songbirds of the streets, they are the life and soul of Istanbul, he said. Under no circumstances must they ever be banned.” – Orhan Pamuk

“Istanbul – the constant beating of the wave of the east against the rock of the west.” – Susan Moody

“This Captain had been brought up in Istanbul. His mind was made of minarets and domes. He capped himself with spacious ease. He was his own call to prayer.” – Jeanette Winterson

“Istanbul owes its extraordinary situation to Golden Horn, the Marmara Sea, and The Bosphorus.” – Edmondo De Amicis

“To savor Istanbul’s back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must, first and foremost, be a stranger to them.” – Orhan Pamuk

“There are some cities in the world, they would have looked much more beautiful had they never been a city and İstanbul is such a city.” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

Funny Istanbul quotes

“In Istanbul, I met a man who said he knew beyond a doubt that God was a cat. I asked why he was so sure, and the man said, “When I pray to him, he ignores me.” – Lowell Thomas

“In Istanbul, the bridges connect Europe and Asia and the kebabs connect your heart and stomach.” – Unknown

“Istanbul is the only city where you can cross continents by boat but still can’t find your way out of the Grand Bazaar.” – Unknown

“Istanbul shares with its residents and visitors alike a great love affair with food. You will always find something to eat in the city, whatever the time of day or night.” – Pomme Larmoyer

“In Istanbul, the cats are the real rulers of the city and we’re all just their guests.” – Unknown

“Within Istanbul, there’s a ton of people who are totally hip – like, the hippest people you could ever meet.” – Lou Barlow

“I found that the loudest fans in the world are in Istanbul.” – Roger Waters

“Nothing beats Istanbul when it comes to street food. The city’s sidewalks are walkable sampler platter.” – Fuad Alakbarov

“Istanbul is a unique city that unifies the east and the west, and offers all kinds of freedom to mankind.” – Max Müller

“You can’t find another world, nor another sea. This city will follow you anywhere.” – Konstantinos Kavafis

Quotes about life in Turkey

“Poverty brings one blessing in Turkey – the poor man is of necessity a monogamist.” – Isabella Bird

“Growing up in Turkey, not a day would go by that we wouldn’t eat yogurt like this.” – Hamdi Ulukaya

“Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business – sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.” – Hamdi Ulukaya

“The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern Turkey. They’re all intertwined.” – Orhan Pamuk

“Turkey is a complex country. Most readers are women, of all generations, and they are passionate about books. However, the written culture is mostly patriarchal. In general, men write; women read. I would like to see this pattern changing. More women should write novels, poems, plays, and hopefully, more men will read fiction.” – Elif Safak

“People look at me as sort of a diplomat for Turkey, which by nature, I’m not; I don’t want to be. It’s again about that playfulness. Being Turkey’s voice or representative is not playful, it’s not childlike; it makes me self-conscious, kills the child in me.” – Orhan Pamuk

“Mustafa Kemal is the heart of the new Turkey. He created a fresh, strong nation from an old, torn society, and proved himself to everyone with his unique personality, and convinced everyone with his energy.” – Ma Shao-Cheng

“Istanbul was Constantinople. Now it’s Istanbul, not Constantinople. Been a long time gone, oh Constantinople. Why did Constantinople get the works? That’s nobody’s business but the Turks!” – The Four Lads

“Writers like Pierre Loti, by contrast, make no secret of loving Istanbul and the Turkish people for the opposite reason: for the preservation of their eastern particularity and their resistance to becoming western.” – Orhan Pamuk

“I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.” – Orhan Pamuk

Travel quotes about Turkey

“I’ve backpacked to countries like Italy and Turkey and observed beautiful scenery.” – Andrea Hirata

“Among all of the nations, the most honorable and the most friendly people are only the Turks. If you go to a Turkish village that has not been under a foreign influence; you will see and learn what true hospitality is in fact.” – William Martin

“I’m one of these people that if I have a nice holiday – like I have had in Turkey repeatedly – I go back a lot.” – Freema Agyeman

“I was always told yogurt had to be sweet to appeal to Americans. But when people go to Turkey or Greece, within 15 minutes of their return, they start talking about how much they enjoyed the yogurt there.” – Hamdi Ulukaya

“For the first day of your trip to Istanbul, you will be wandering around Sultanahmet, the historical peninsula, and the old city of Istanbul. Here, you get to feast your eyes on a breathtaking collection of architectural marvels, such as the Hippodrome, Topkapi Palace, Blue Mosque, and Hagia Sophia.” – Known

“It should have been the Arabian Nights, but to Bond, seeing it first above the tops of trams and above the great scars of modern advertising along the river frontage, it seemed a once beautiful theatre-set that modern Turkey had thrown aside in favor of the steel and concrete flat-iron of the Istanbul-Hilton Hotel, blankly glittering behind him on the heights of Pera.” – Ian Fleming

“I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very shallow Turk indeed.” – Joseph O’Neill

“I suppose if I went to Turkey – I mean, I can’t imagine going that far away, but if I did go to Turkey, yes, I would probably try to know ‘please’ and ‘sorry’ and ‘thank you’, and ‘a beer please’, and all the useful words.” – Robert Webb

“In Zagreb, the Old Town really could be Prague. You go two hours to the coast to Opatija, and you really could be in the South of France, in the Croatian Riviera. And then you head down the coast towards Split, and you get into more Turkish architecture, so you can double Istanbul.” – James Watkins

Quotes about Turkish 

“Give Me a Turkish Army. I will Conquer the world.” – Napoléon Bonaparte

“On the meeting point of two worlds, the ornament of Turkish homeland, the treasure of Turkish history, the city cherished by the Turkish nation, İstanbul, has its place in the hearts of all citizens.” – Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

“Creator of Turkey, the greatest man in history, I greet by bowing my head with the deepest respect.” – Professor MORRF

“Turks as a race and nation are the most noble and the foremost of the nations. They are socially, religiously, and ethically admirable for people who are unbiased.” – Lamartine

“Turk is the noblest of the nobles. Nothing artificial, nothing flashy. Their dignity is a gift of nature to them.” – Pierre Loti

“Turks not only have an infinite courage, they also have the intelligence of a wizard that stuns the wills. Turks kept gaining victories over victories and created civilizations over civilizations using this intelligence and gives the most honorable service to the human civilization. It wouldn’t have been possible  for them to rule half of Europe otherwise.” – Çarnayev (Russian Commander )

“Turkish soldier is courageous. He loves his mother country and gives his life without hesitation if need be.” – Albert Einstein

“History learned so much from the Turks. There are such monuments that came from their hands; they are ornaments of civilization.” – Hammer

“Turks are heroes. They never hurt their friends but they make them better off. If Turkish nation hold your hands, they never let it go and never break a promise. They don’t leave you in your good or bad day. Somehow if you become friends with them, you gain the ability to defeat any difficulty with ease.” – Comenius 

“There are two things Turks love the most. Justice and truth. They never did anything wrong but they were wronged.” – William Pitt

Famous Turkish Proverbs 

Free vinegar tastes sweeter than honey. 

Not knowing is not shameful, not asking is.

Take care of the vineyard, so the vineyard takes care of you. 

Empty words don’t fill the stomach.

A fool dreams of wealth; a wise man, of happiness.

Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.

In the company of the blind, close your eyes.

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

More Turkey quotes

“Turkish cuisine is, to my mind, one of the most exciting and accomplished in the world.” – Yotam Ottolenghi

“I write with humour about sadness, to introduce an element of sweet to the sour, a bit like Turkish food.” – Elif Safak

“You still miss Turkish people, talking Turkish, you still miss your culture. That’s why New York is the best place to be because everywhere you go there are Turkish people, your friends are here, and you can go to eat Turkish food every day.” – Enes Kanter

“I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.” – Orhan Pamuk

“My best vacation was renting a boat and motoring along the Adriatic, going along the Croatian coast, before it became so fashionable. I’ve also sailed around the Turkish islands, the Greek islands and Sicily.” – Ian Schrager

“Actually, I’ve taught creative writing in Turkey, at an English language university, where the students were native Turkish speakers, but they were writing their essays in English, and they were very interesting – even the sense of structure, the conventions of writing, the different styles of writing.” – Elif Batuman

“Turkish people are very emotional, very passionate about football, really want to see their team do well.” – Ryan Babel

“When I say all of this stuff about Turkey, people don’t understand. They think I don’t like Turkey. I love Turkey. I love my people. I love Turkish food and everything. But my problem is with the government.” – Enes Kanter

“We saw that on the Turkish side there was a sincere wish for peace. But before I could even put my foot back on Greek soil people called me a traitor.” – Mikis Theodorakis

“Breakfast is French toast. It’s very similar to English toast. The only difference is, when I’m eating it, a Turkish friend comes round and insults me.” – Omid Djalili

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