The main external threat to Turkey comes from the United States. This is confirmed by the results of a survey conducted by sociologists at Kadir Has University, Turkey, RIA Novosti reported.

According to the survey, 67, 8% of respondents believe that the U.S. bears the greatest threat for Turkey. Israel is in the second place with 51% of survey participants, followed by Iran at 9, 6%. Thus Armenia, with whom Turkey has no diplomatic relations, was not in the top three.
The survey was conducted among the thousands of respondents, in 26 of the 81 provinces of Turkey.

Almost half of respondents (44, 3%) consider ineffective the foreign policy conducted by the Turkish government and 32, 1% of respondents call it successful.

The poll also shows a decline in popularity Tayyip Erdogan’s government, which has been in power for eight years. If during the first half of 2010, confidence in the Cabinet was at the level of 44% in the second half of the year it dropped to 26.5%.