quoting Prof. Dr. Ýlber Ortaylý

 We have the richest Greek and Roman ruins here in Turkey, but we will always be handicapped in understanding them unless we know Latin and Greek. You can be good at archaeology but lacking in philology. That is why Ataturk was such a great man.

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