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Turks reckon Armenia as an enemy: International Strategy Research
18:07 / 08/15/2009
According to International Strategy Research Organization public
opinion poll results, 47% Turks find their external policy failed, 49%
consider it successful, 56.3% see their future in EU, 23.6% – in
Turkish world, Islamic-10%, Eurasian Community-7.2% and 2.7% link
their future with U.S.
Turks believe that U.S. (32%), Israel (23.6%), Russia (11.6%) and
France (9.5%) threaten world stability.
More than half (56.3%) respondents consider religious and cultural
differences might hinder Turkey to join EU, while 15.4 % indicate
democracy problems as an obstacle, economic differences (10.9%) and
population problems (7.2%). Only 4.5% of all find Armenian issue
problematic.
U.S. (25.4%) will render assistance to Turkey in the case of war,
military conflict or natural disaster, 10% set hopes upon Azerbaijan,
8.6% – are for Japan, 7.4% – Turkish states, 7.2%- Islamic countries,
3.6%-Greece and 1.09% – goes to Russia.
Among Turkey’s friendly states Azerbaijan rated first with 23%, then
Bosnia and Herzegovina- 10.8%, U.S.- 8.5%, Germany-0.6%.
Turkish enemies’ list heads U.S.-25.4%, Israel-15.6%, France-12%,
Armenia-10.3%, Greece-7%, Russia-6.4% and Germany-1.8%.
According to polls of 2005, 6% reckons Armenia as an enemy and 2.8% –
Russia.
The poll was conducted in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir and Bursa.