“It is our habit. In fact it is a necessity of our “official policy.” Turkish representatives going abroad always return having attained big successes. The reality does not need to be so. The important thing is not being successful abroad, rather, to deceive the public opinion at home.

“… Therefore, we should confess that we could not understand whether the U.S. visit of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was successful or not. Some of our colleagues are stuck on the view that the visit was undeniably successful… However, there are some questions. What guarantee did we receive on the ethnic federation attempts of Kurds in Northern Iraq? What did we achieve with our new initiatives on the Cyprus issue?”