"Armies, your first goal is the Mediterranean. Forward!"

"The Republic of Turkey cannot be a country of sheikhs, dervishes, and disciples. The truest, most real order is the order of civilisation."

"Turkey's true master is the peasant."

"A man who doesn't think differently from his time and environment can't grow beyond his time and environment."

"Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die."