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70 PER CENT OF TURKS EYE U.S. AS ENEMY
PanARMENIAN.Net
16.06.2008 14:32 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ U.S. officials had been hoping that Washington's
recently-launched military cooperation with Turkey in the fight against
the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party's, or PKK, terrorists in northern
Iraq would help improve their country's terribly bad image in Turkey,
but a survey proved that this was not the case.
Some 70 percent of Turks view the United States as an "enemy," while
only 8 percent considers Turkey's closest Western ally a "partner,"
according to an annual global attitudes report released Thursday by the
Pew Research Center, a think tank here that conducts worldwide polls
and surveys. The percentage of Turks having a favorable opinion about
the United States rose by three points from last year to reach only
12 percent this year. About 77 percent of Turks had unfavorable views
of the United States, the report said. President George W. Bush was
faring even worse in Turkey. Only 2 percent of Turks had a favorable
view of him.
The Pew report covered 23 countries, and its data on Turkey was
gathered through face-to-face interviews with 1,003 subjects from
March 31 to April 21, the Turkish Daily News reports.
PanARMENIAN.Net
16.06.2008 14:32 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ U.S. officials had been hoping that Washington's
recently-launched military cooperation with Turkey in the fight against
the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party's, or PKK, terrorists in northern
Iraq would help improve their country's terribly bad image in Turkey,
but a survey proved that this was not the case.
Some 70 percent of Turks view the United States as an "enemy," while
only 8 percent considers Turkey's closest Western ally a "partner,"
according to an annual global attitudes report released Thursday by the
Pew Research Center, a think tank here that conducts worldwide polls
and surveys. The percentage of Turks having a favorable opinion about
the United States rose by three points from last year to reach only
12 percent this year. About 77 percent of Turks had unfavorable views
of the United States, the report said. President George W. Bush was
faring even worse in Turkey. Only 2 percent of Turks had a favorable
view of him.
The Pew report covered 23 countries, and its data on Turkey was
gathered through face-to-face interviews with 1,003 subjects from
March 31 to April 21, the Turkish Daily News reports.