What country in the world is most anti-American? Take a guess, no peeking!

[seemslikeadream]

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Truly democratic - and anti-American
By JOSHUA W. WALKER
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What country in the world is most anti-American? According to the Pew Global Attitudes Project's 47-nation survey released Wednesday it would not be one of the usual suspects - the Palestinian Authority, Pakistan, or Venezuela - but rather America's 50-year-NATO ally, Turkey.

This finding should trouble the Bush administration deeply; Turkey is exactly the type of Muslim-majority democracy that officials have been touting as a model for the Middle East and the Islamic world.

Consider the facts: Turkey ranked dead last in all the most important categories on the survey, something which indicates the depth of anti-American sentiment. Most tellingly, Turks have the lowest favorability for both America and its citizens (9% and 13%). Moreover, Turkey tied with the Palestinian Authority for the lowest percentage of citizens who think the US is fair in its Middle East policies, a paltry 2%.

Another disturbing sign for US policymakers is the fact that Turkey, an active partner in Afghanistan and a crucial transportation hub for Iraq, has the second-lowest level of support for the US-led war on terror (9%) of all nations surveyed.

[Alexander]

1. And there's a movement to have Turkey join NATO...

A terrible idea.

[potone]

6. Are you kidding?

Turkey is a member of NATO. It even has troops fighting in Afghanistan. The question is whether or not it will join the European Union.

[Alexander]

10. That's what I meant.

The EU.

[coco77]

2. And Turkey has troops stationed on the border of Iraq...

as of last week.

[seemslikeadream]

4. 140,000

:hi:

[potone]

3. This is important

There is no greater proof of how this administration has ruined our standing in the world than this. Turkey used to love America and with good reason--we supported them both financially and politically. But when we tried to bully them into supporting our invasion of Iraq and letting us use our military bases in their country to lauch attacks on Iraq, their Parliament voted no. There was NO public support in Turkey for our invasion of Iraq. As usual, our government's response to a policy decision by an ally which reflected its people's desires as well as its own sense of national interest was outrage. How dare the Turkish government put the interests of its own people and country ahead of Bush's desires! How dare a Muslim democracy (no matter how flawed) respect the will of its people! This shows how empty Bush's rhetoric is regarding democracy.

[seemslikeadream]

7. Turkey, Iran reach accord to carry gas to Europe

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070715-072326-8364r

Turkey, Iran reach accord to carry gas to Europe
AFP

July 15, 2007


ANKARA -- Turkey and Iran have reached a preliminary agreement to carry natural gas from Iran and Turkmenistan to Europe, Turkish energy minister Hilmi Guler said Sunday.

The memorandum of understanding was signed away from the public eye Friday evening in Ankara after talks between Guler and Iranian oil minister Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh.

"We discussed some requests from Iran in return their demand to export natural gas to European Union countries ... As a result, we agreed on carrying Turkmen gas via Iran to Turkey, and then to Europe," Guler said in the northeastern city of Ordu, the Anatolia news agency reported.

Iran has also agreed to let Turkey develop several natural gas fields in Iran, he said, without elaborating.
Officials from the two countries needed to complete technical work for the agreement to be finalized, he added.

The deal is seen as boosting the prospects of a planned 3,300-kilometer (2,000-mile) pipeline project, known as Nabucco, to carry gas from the Middle East and Central Asia to the European Union via Turkey and the Balkans, bypassing Russia.

Turkey already buys gas via a conduit from the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz to Ankara, which was inaugurated in December 2001, even though the deal was frowned upon in the United States, Turkey's long-standing North Atlantic Treaty Organization ally and Iran's archfoe.

[Mojorabbit]

13. My BIL

lived in Turkey as a teenager and he is 56 now. They hated Americans then and he has vivid memories of how he was treated at the time by the locals.

[SoCalDem]

5. Turkey is having a resurgence of Islamic fervor these days.

I am afraid that their elections will swing away from their quasi-liberal stance. They have been treading water for a long time, trying to maintain that delicate balance between religion and secular life, and I'm afraid they are losing ground.

They ARE gonna mix it up with the Iraqi Kurds, and I doubt that they will ever make it into the EU, and when that happens, they will turn away from the west..

Incirlik AFB may even have to be abandoned.. Oh well we stole Diego Garcia, so who needs Turkey anyway:(

[seemslikeadream]

9. and Turkey's military controls Turkey's military

[dkofos]

11. Turkey is a member of NATO. But won't be for long if they mix it

up with the Kurds.

[The Stranger]

8. This "Anti-American" McCarthyist bullshit propaganda is the problem.

Joshua Walker sounds like a fucking Neocon swallowing and regurgitating massive lies and assumptions about the "War on Terror," which is actually a war to create more terror.

Joshua, go fuck yourself. You are part of the problem.

[seemslikeadream]

12. Is the Pew Global Attitudes Project wrong?

http://pewglobal.org/reports/pdf/256.pdf

[The Stranger]

15. If it is based on the same lying assumptions the article is, then yes,

it is wrong.

[seemslikeadream]

16. Pew Research?

what's wrong with you?

[irislake]

14. Disapproving of America or being critical of America

for it's foreign policy is not necessarily being anti-American. It annoys me when right-wing Canadian pundits dismiss reasoned criticisms of aspects of your country as "anti-Americanism". Same thing with anti-Semitism. Anybody who is not presently very critical of the present American government is condoning torture and murder and war crimes galore.

[baldguy]

18. "You're eiether with us or you're against us."

[KAT119]

17. Important news....