"Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan has always been a Turkish nationalist," Gareth Jenkins, a nonresident senior fellow with the Joint Centre's Silk Road Studies Programme and Turkey Initiative, explains. "Since the collapse of the Kurdish opening in 2009, we have seen Erdogan come out and be a lot more stridently Turkish nationalist, which has coincided with his growing influence in the AKP."
„Turski premijer Erdogan uvek je bio turski nacionalista“, objašnjava Garet Dženkins, povremeni visoki saradnik Zajedničkog centra Programa za studije Puta svile i Turske inicijative. „Od propasti „otvaranja prema Kurdima“ 2009. godine, videli smo kako se Erdogan pokazuje i postupa mnogo smelije kao turski nacionalista, što se poklopilo sa njegovim sve većim uticajem u AKP.“