Only one in four Turks supports a quick and unconditional opening of Turkey’s border with Armenia, according to a new opinion poll released on Wednesday.
The nationwide poll conducted by the Ankara-based MetroPOLL Strategic and Social Research Center and reported by the Turkish Today’s Zaman daily gauged Turkish public opinion on a wide range of domestic and foreign policy issues, including Turkish-Armenian relations.
It authors said that when asked whether the land border between the two neighboring countries, which Turkey closed in 1993 in solidarity with Azerbaijan, should be reopened, 50.3 percent of respondents said “no.” More than 27 percent said “yes,” while the remaining 22 percent had no answer, Today’s Zaman said.
The findings of the survey are in tune with the public sentiment in Armenia. An opinion poll conducted there by the non-governmental Armenian Marketing Association (AMA) about a year ago found that only one-third of Armenians want to have an open border with Turkey, while those who are firmly or mostly against the opening make up just over 30 percent of the country’s population.
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