2.9 PERCENT OF TURKS SAY ARMENIA COULD BE A THREAT

ArmRadio.am
12.06.2007 17:01

Seventy-seven percent of Greeks consider neighboring Turkey to be a
threat, while 35 percent of Turks perceive the United States as a
threat, according to an opinion poll conducted both in Turkey and
Greece. The survey also revealed Turks are more nationalist than
Greeks, the Turkish Daily News reports.

According to the poll, 35.6 percent of Turks see their NATO ally the
United States as a threat and only 9.5 percent consider Greece to be
a threat.

Among other matters, 25.8 percent said an independent Kurdish state
in northern Iraq, 5.5 percent said the European Union, 4.2 percent
said Israel, 2.9 percent said Armenia and 1.5 percent said Iran would
be a threat to Turkey.

The same poll unveiled that Turks see themselves as more nationalist
than Greeks. Sixty-two percent of the Turkish respondents say they
are extremely nationalist, while in Greece this figure is 31 percent.

Seventy-one percent of Turks believe in the rhetoric "Turks have no
friends other than Turks" and 54 percent of the Greeks have faith in
"Greeks have no friends other than Greeks."