"Ako ima ičega u poimanju da se Turska okreće ka istoku, to nije mali udio jer je ona gurnuta, a gurnuta je od strane nekih Evropljana koji su Turskoj odbili dati onu vrstu organske veze sa Zapadom koju je Turska tražila," izjavio je on tokom posjete Londonu.
"If there's anything to the notion that Turkey is moving eastwards, it is in no small part because it was pushed, and it was pushed by some in Europe refusing to give Turkey the kind of organic link to the West that Turkey sought," he said during a visit to London.