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Majority Of Turks Critical Of US Foreign Policy - Official Report Re-Affirms
10 July 2009
Despite high expectations that US President Barack Obama's visit to the Turkish capital would help thaw the ice between the two countries, a recent poll has found that an overwhelming majority of the Turkish population is still highly critical of US foreign policy. A new WorldPublicOpinion.org poll has found that Turkey is among nine nations that say the US is playing a mainly negative role with its foreign policy. Despite Obama's well-received speech before members of the Turkish Parliament in early April, 72 percent of Turks say the US is playing a mainly negative role, as well as majorities in Pakistan (69 percent), Egypt (67 percent), Iraq (53 percent) and pluralities in Russia (49 percent), China (41 percent), Ukraine (41 percent), Indonesia (39 percent) and Azerbaijan (38 percent). The poll also found that Turks believe the US is not generally “cooperative with other countries.” According to the poll, countries that tend to say the US is not cooperative are all majority-Muslim nations: Egypt (62 percent), Iraq (58 percent), Pakistan (54 percent) and Turkey (45 percent). The recently published poll has revealed that around the world, US foreign policy continues to receive heavy criticism on a variety of fronts, even though in 13 of 19 nations polled most people say they have confidence that Obama will do the right thing in international affairs. The US is criticized for coercing other nations with its superior power (15 of 19 nations), failing to abide by international law (17 of 19 nations) and for how it is dealing with climate change (11 of 18 nations). Overall, views are mixed on whether the US is playing a mainly positive or mainly negative role in the world. Asked whether they have confidence in Obama to “do the right thing regarding world affairs,” for all nations (excluding the US) an average of 61 percent said they have some or a lot of confidence. But asked how the US treats their government, few -- on average just one in four -- say it “treats us fairly,” while two-thirds say that it “abuses its greater power to make us do what the US wants.” Overall, these views are no better than they were in 2008. Only three countries diverged from this view (Kenya, Nigeria and Germany). In all nations polled, the majority said the US “uses the threat of military force to gain advantages.” These majorities ranged from 61 percent in India and Poland to 92 percent in South Korea and included America's close ally Great Britain at 83 percent. On average across all nations polled, 77 percent perceive the US as threatening. Even 71 percent of Americans agree. Steven Kull, director of WorldPublicOpinion.org said, “Most people around the world seem to have a positive view of the young new captain at the helm of the American ship of state, though many people see this huge ship as still carrying forward domineering policies.” WorldPublicOpinion.org conducted the poll of 19,923 respondents in 20 nations that comprise 62 percent of the world's population. This includes most of the largest nations -- China, India, the US, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan and Russia -- as well as Mexico, Germany, Great Britain, France, Poland, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Kenya, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, the Palestinian territories and South Korea. Polling was also conducted in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.
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