66,5 PERCENT OF TURKEY’S POPULATION WANTS TO SEE ABDULLAH GUL IN THE POST OF PRESIDENT
By Hakob Chakrian

AZG Armenian Daily #145
15/08/2007

On August 9-11, "Macro Research" organization has questioned 1744
people in Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir, Adana, Erzerum, Trapizon, Malatia,
Samsun, Komia and Diyarbakir about the coming presidential elections
in Turkey.

66,5 percent of the questioned want to see Abdullah Gul in the post of
the president, 25 percent are against him, and 8,5 percent are neutral.

The viewpoints of the electorates of the parties that participated in
the parliamentary elections are also very interesting: 93,2 percent
of the electorate of Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development
Party and also 20,3 percent of the main opposition Republican People’s
Party’s, 51,3 percent of the National Movement Party’s, 50 percent
of the Democratic Party’s, 73,6 percent of the Islamic "Happiness"
Party’s and 36.6 percent of the Youth Party’s electorates support
the candidacy of Abdullah Gul.

44 percent of the independent deputies’ electorates also want to see
Abdullah Gul in the post of the president.

70,5 percent of the Republican People’s Party’s, 31,5 percent of the
Nationalist Movement Party’s and 33 percent of the Democratic Party’s
electorates are against Abdullah Gul.