Turks?

And the Turks made mincemeat of them. We don't know that, sir.

For Feisal? No No.

Certainly the Turks don't dream of it.

Who work at Auda's pleasure.

No, they're still there, but they've no boots.

And if Turkey enters on the wrong side?

The real war's being fought against the Germans, not the Turks.

What tribe is that? They're a tribe of slaves.

I've told them that that's false, that we have no ambitions in Arabia.

Well, Mr. Bentley, I will give you a guide and a letter.

They're coming through Beersheba. I know, but we've gone forward to Gaza.

The Turks have 12inch guns at Aqaba, sir.

And I must do it, because the Turks have European guns.

I take away their flocks and herds. The Turks pay me a golden treasure, yet I am poor!

All you want is someone holding down the Turkish Right.

What do the Turks have in Mazril? A brigade, sir.

Which is why my father made this war upon the Turks.

Yet this is a tulip that the Turks could not buy.

If they rise against the Turks, does the bureau think they're going to sit down under us when this war is over?

Watch out that I don't punch you in the face... so you can't perform for Turks and cannibals!

What characterizes Turks today is not so much pride and hope in their country s expanding influence as fear of its disintegration. The Kurdish problem preoccupies Turks, as does their growing sense that they are losing control of two essential issues the Syrian and Iranian crises.

In the 20th century the population of Antalya increased as Turks from the Caucasus and the Balkans moved into Anatolia.

Their morale, if ever they had any, which I doubt, the Turks knocked out of them in front of Medina, with howitzers.

If he finds he's using four divisions to fend off a handful of bandits, he'll withdraw.

After the split of the Roman Empire, the area became part of what is now called the Byzantine Empire until conquered by the Ottoman Turks in the 14th century.

Popular among his subjects, he was an able military commander, most famous for the victory over the Turks in the 1683 Battle of Vienna.

The first force had some success, in consequence of which the Turks agreed to a convention on 24 January 1800, by virtue of which the French were to quit Egypt.

In 1914, at the beginning of World War I, his family became refugees and fled to Amude near the city of Qamishli in present day north eastern Syria.

In reality, nearly three years after the beginning of the Arab Spring, Turkey is more in search of itself than it is of Europe, even if it needs Europe more than Turks are willing to admit.

And that means that Turks may need Europe more than they are willing to admit, even to themselves. But is Europe today any more ready and willing than it was yesterday to engage in serious talks with Turkey?

In reality, nearly three years after the beginning of the Arab Spring, Turkey is more in search of itself than it is of Europe, even if it needs Europe more than Turks are willing to admit. What is Turkey today, what are its values, and what is its destiny in a highly fluid regional environment?