{"id":41829,"date":"2010-09-22T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.palmografos.com\/?p=41829"},"modified":"2010-09-22T07:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T04:55:00","slug":"vivvo-6913","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/?p=41829","title":{"rendered":"10 statistics that show Turkey drifting away from the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">According to this year\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transatlantictrends.org\/\" title=\"Transatlantic Trends\">Transatlantic Trends<\/a> survey, Turkey can be seen as drifting away from the West. How do we  know? After surveying approximately 1,000 people in Turkey (along with  about 1,000 in the United States and each of 11 European Union  countries) on a host of foreign policy and economic policy questions, we  found the following: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">1. 28% of Turks approve of Barack Obama\u2019s handling of foreign policy, compared to 78% of Europeans and 52% of Americans<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"right_image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gmfus.org\/media\/turkey1-small.jpg\" border=\"0\" title=\"Turkish flags\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/>2. 34% of Turks say that Turkey should act alone in the world, down from 43% in 2009<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">3. 13% of Turks say that Turkey should act in conjunction with the EU, down from 22% in 2009<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">4.  20% of Turks say that Turkey should act in conjunction with countries in the Middle East, up from 10% in 2009<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">5. In 2004, 73% of Turks said that joining the EU would be a good thing. In 2010, just 38% of Turks said so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"left_image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gmfus.org\/media\/turkey3-small.jpg\" border=\"0\" title=\"Boats flying Turkish flag\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"> 6.  48% of Turks are not concerned about Iran becoming a nuclear threat, compared with 86% of Americans and 79% of Europeans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"right_image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gmfus.org\/media\/turkey2-small.jpg\" border=\"0\" title=\"Istanbul&apos;s Blue Mosque\" width=\"150\" height=\"259\" \/>7. 25% of Turks are willing to let Iran become a  nuclear country, compared with 6% of Europeans and 4% of Americans who  would\u00a0 allow that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"> 8.  In 2004, 53% of Turks felt that NATO was essential to their security. In 2010, just 30% said so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">9. While 51% of Europeans think it is likely Turkey  will join the EU, 63% of Turks think it isn\u2019t likely, including 34%  saying it isn\u2019t likely at all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">10. 48% of Turks think that Turkey  has such different values from the West that it can\u2019t be part of it, and  only 30% think Turkey has enough in common with the West.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"> This entry was posted by William Bohlen on Friday, September 17th, 2010 at 10:39 am and is filed under <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.gmfus.org\/category\/black-sea\/\" title=\"View all posts in Black Sea\" rel=\"category tag\">Black Sea<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.gmfus.org\/category\/culture\/\" title=\"View all posts in Culture\" rel=\"category tag\">Culture<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.gmfus.org\/category\/european-union\/\" title=\"View all posts in European Union\" rel=\"category tag\">European Union<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.gmfus.org\/category\/iran\/\" title=\"View all posts in Iran\" rel=\"category tag\">Iran<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.gmfus.org\/category\/middle-east\/\" title=\"View all posts in Middle East\" rel=\"category tag\">Middle East<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.gmfus.org\/category\/nato\/\" title=\"View all posts in NATO\" rel=\"category tag\">NATO<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.gmfus.org\/category\/transatlantic-relations\/\" title=\"View all posts in Transatlantic Relations\" rel=\"category tag\">Transatlantic Relations<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.gmfus.org\/category\/transatlantic-trends\/\" title=\"View all posts in Transatlantic Trends\" rel=\"category tag\">Transatlantic Trends<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.gmfus.org\/category\/turkey\/\" title=\"View all posts in Turkey\" rel=\"category tag\">Turkey<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.gmfus.org\/category\/united-states\/\" title=\"View all posts in United States\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.gmfus.org\/2010\/09\/17\/10-statistics-that-show-turkey-drifting-away-from-the-west\/\">The German Marshall Fund of the United States<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;color: #ffcc00\">\u0391\u03c0\u03bf\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03bb\u03ae: Chris Theodosis<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this year\u2019s Transatlantic Trends survey, Turkey can be seen as drifting away from the West. 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