 This file photo shows people filling out forms at the Turkish Employment Institution. According to a recent survey by Istanbul's Kadir Has University, unemployment was cited as the No 1 problem in the country. DAILY NEWS photo, Hasan ALTINIŞIK |
The leadership change in the main opposition Republican People's Party, or CHP, has not yet increased the public's confidence in its ability to rule the country, according to a recent study.
Fully 65.2 percent of respondents said the CHP under the leadership of Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu could not successfully rule the country, while 34.8 percent said it could.
Nearly half of respondents said they found Kılıçdaroğlu unsuccessful while 25.7 percent said they found him successful.
The survey was conducted in 2010 by Istanbul's Kadir Has University and its results were made public Tuesday by Mustafa Aydın, the rector of the university. Researchers surveyed 1,000 people in 26 provinces.
The survey showed a sharp decrease in confidence in the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, government as the 44 percent of respondents who said they trusted the government in June 2010 dropped to 26.5 percent in December.
Fully 75 percent of the respondents said the main opposition had no policy that they supported while only 32.8 percent said they did not support any government policy.
Some 15.4 percent said they supported most of the activities of the government while 10.7 said they were unsure.
In June 2010, municipality services and the health system ranked as the top two areas where respondents supported the activities of the government. In December 2010, health policies were followed by foreign policy orientation as the top two areas that received the most support among government activities.
The findings also indicated that there was confusion on foreign policy issues. Nearly half said there was no single foreign policy issue on which the government had been successful, while 44.5 percent said there were no areas where the government had been unsuccessful.
When asked in what foreign policy area the government has been most successful, 10.3 percent said “its close relationship with foreign countries,” while 8.1 percent said its relations with Israel. When asked in which foreign policy issue the government had been most unsuccessful, 10.6 percent said its policies with Israel while 10.1 percent said its inability to enter the European Union.
The findings on which countries pose a threat to Turkey corroborated past surveys, with 67.8 percent saying the United States and 51 percent saying Israel.
The activities of the outlawed Kurdistan People's Party, or PKK, continue to represent the number-one threat to Turkey's security, 59.9 percent of respondents said, followed by the global economic crisis at 46.3 percent. Also on the list was radical fundamentalism at 28.3 percent, nuclear weapons proliferation at 25.8 percent and global warming at 24.9 percent.
Terrorism, however, is no longer the main problem for Turkey, as it was in the 2009 survey. Unemployment is cited as the number-one problem of Turkey, and many respondents expected it to remain the country’s main problem for the next 10 years.
According to the findings of the survey, 48.7 percent supported allowing headscarf-wearing women to enter public institutions while 51.3 said they were against it; 63.6 percent said wearing the headscarf should be allowed in university while 35.6 percent said it should be allowed in high school.
Fully 65.2 percent of respondents said the CHP under the leadership of Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu could not successfully rule the country, while 34.8 percent said it could.
Nearly half of respondents said they found Kılıçdaroğlu unsuccessful while 25.7 percent said they found him successful.
The survey was conducted in 2010 by Istanbul's Kadir Has University and its results were made public Tuesday by Mustafa Aydın, the rector of the university. Researchers surveyed 1,000 people in 26 provinces.
The survey showed a sharp decrease in confidence in the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, government as the 44 percent of respondents who said they trusted the government in June 2010 dropped to 26.5 percent in December.
Fully 75 percent of the respondents said the main opposition had no policy that they supported while only 32.8 percent said they did not support any government policy.
Some 15.4 percent said they supported most of the activities of the government while 10.7 said they were unsure.
In June 2010, municipality services and the health system ranked as the top two areas where respondents supported the activities of the government. In December 2010, health policies were followed by foreign policy orientation as the top two areas that received the most support among government activities.
The findings also indicated that there was confusion on foreign policy issues. Nearly half said there was no single foreign policy issue on which the government had been successful, while 44.5 percent said there were no areas where the government had been unsuccessful.
When asked in what foreign policy area the government has been most successful, 10.3 percent said “its close relationship with foreign countries,” while 8.1 percent said its relations with Israel. When asked in which foreign policy issue the government had been most unsuccessful, 10.6 percent said its policies with Israel while 10.1 percent said its inability to enter the European Union.
The findings on which countries pose a threat to Turkey corroborated past surveys, with 67.8 percent saying the United States and 51 percent saying Israel.
The activities of the outlawed Kurdistan People's Party, or PKK, continue to represent the number-one threat to Turkey's security, 59.9 percent of respondents said, followed by the global economic crisis at 46.3 percent. Also on the list was radical fundamentalism at 28.3 percent, nuclear weapons proliferation at 25.8 percent and global warming at 24.9 percent.
Terrorism, however, is no longer the main problem for Turkey, as it was in the 2009 survey. Unemployment is cited as the number-one problem of Turkey, and many respondents expected it to remain the country’s main problem for the next 10 years.
According to the findings of the survey, 48.7 percent supported allowing headscarf-wearing women to enter public institutions while 51.3 said they were against it; 63.6 percent said wearing the headscarf should be allowed in university while 35.6 percent said it should be allowed in high school.
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