I n January 2021, Turkish Kadir Has University published a research report “Turkey: Trends 2020” based on the polls. Surveys referring to the social-economic and political fields of Turkey, were conducted in 26 Turkish provinces, among 1000 people aged 18 and above. Let’s refer to the results of foreign policy surveys.

In the section on foreign policy issues of the study, to the question with which countries Turkey should cooperate more closely in its foreign policy, 19,5% of the respondents answered with the Turkic-speaking countries, 18,4% answered with Muslim countries, 11,3% with Russia, 10,8% with the USA, 10,6 with NATO countries, 10,2% answered that Turkey should work alone and 9,8% answered with the EU countries.In total, 46,5% of the respondents believes that foreign policy of Turkish government is successful.

To the question, whether NATO membership is vital for Turkeyin the current international context, 48% of the respondents gave a positive answer. It’s noteworthy that 48,8% of the respondents were against and 31,3% were for Turkey’s military presence or the creation of military bases abroad. 45% of those participating in the surveys are against Turkey’s cross-border military operations, 38,2% are for.

The study also presents countries that pose a threat and those friendly (or allied) to Turkey’s security. Hence, to the question“What do you think, whether these countries pose a threat to Turkey?”, the top 5enemy states appeared to beUnited States, then Israel, Armenia, France, Great Britain (seechart 1).

Chart 1

According to the respondents, the allied or friendly countries of Turkey are Azerbaijan, the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Qatar and so on (see chart 2)

Chart 2

Among other questions asked to Turkish respondents include what political views they have. The answers to this question are distributed as follows: 25,7% are conservative, 22% nationalist (more close to the Pan-Turkists), 13,9% social-democrat, 10,3% are the supporters of Kemalism, 8,9% are the supporters of political Islam, 5,9% are apolitical and 4.3% are socialist/communist.