PIPA: why Turks feel threatened by US
Why Turks Feel Threatened by the US
Which Middle Eastern public has the largest percentage of people
naming the United States as the country that poses the greatest
threat? The answer, according to the most recent Pew Global Attitudes
Project survey, is Turkey, a NATO ally and a country that is
generally touted as the type of secular, multi-party democracy the
United States should foster in the Middle East.
Nearly two-thirds (64%) of Turkish respondents name the United States—
which guarantees Turkish security as a NATO ally and has urged the EU
to accept Turkish membership—as the country that poses the “greatest
threat” to Turkey in the future, Pew found. Among the Middle Eastern
publics asked the open-ended question by Pew, only in Turkey did a
majority name the United States.
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