Turkey most popular country among Arabs

[ekrem]

Overall, Turkey receives the highest favorable ratings in most Arab countries, with the U.S. Receiving the lowest rating in every country but Saudi Arabia, where Iran is lowest.

The Arab American Institute

Or PDF
http://www.aaiusa.org/page/-/Polls/ArabAttitudesTowardIran_2011_Complete.pdf


Good.

 

[Warrior102]

I've been to Antalya. Quite nice. There used to be a USAF base in Turkey - maybe still is. Beautiful place.

 

[ekrem]

Pew

On Eve of Elections, a More Upbeat Mood in Turkey | Pew Global Attitudes Project

 

[High_Gravity]

I've been to Antalya. Quite nice. There used to be a USAF base in Turkey - maybe still is. Beautiful place.

Theres still a couple air bases there, Izmir and Incirlik.

 

[Leweman]

I like turkey ... especially with mashed potatoes and gravy.

 

[ekrem]

I like turkey ... especially with mashed potatoes and gravy.

Might be.
But there are some people in this board, who claim other things what the polls show.

 

[High_Gravity]

I like turkey ... especially with mashed potatoes and gravy.

I like my turkey with collard greens, blacked eyed peas, macaroni and cheese as well as mashed potatoes and gravy.

 

[ekrem]

CNN Arabic readers vote Erdogan 'Man of the Year'

Erdogan won the honor by a large margin, receiving 74% of the vote.
(...)
CNN Arabic, based in Dubai, stated that the results of the poll represent the "general mood of the Arab street,"

CNN Arabic readers vote Erdogan 'Man of th... JPost - Middle East

 

[Moonglow]

I like turkey ... especially with mashed potatoes and gravy.

I like my turkey with collard greens, blacked eyed peas, macaroni and cheese as well as mashed potatoes and gravy.

with broccoli and rice wth cheese casarole.

 

[ekrem]

Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey’s foreign minister, was winding up a visit to rebel-controlled Libya when he decided, to his minders’ alarm, to go to the central square of Benghazi, which like its Cairene counterpart is called Tahrir, or Liberation. As the crowd chanted “Erdogan, Turkey, Muslim”, he brought greetings from his prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and told them: “We have a common future and a history.”

From North Africa to the Gulf, the region seems to be going through a Turkish moment.

The Turkish model: A hard act to follow | The Economist

 

[LumpyPostage]

I've been to Izmir and Kusadasi. I didn't see any macaroni and cheese.

 

[hipeter924]

CNN Arabic readers vote Erdogan 'Man of the Year'

Erdogan won the honor by a large margin, receiving 74% of the vote.
(...)
CNN Arabic, based in Dubai, stated that the results of the poll represent the "general mood of the Arab street,"

CNN Arabic readers vote Erdogan 'Man of th... JPost - Middle East

So did they get to vote three or four times this round? Or is this out of 300%?

 

[ekrem]

CNN Arabic readers vote Erdogan 'Man of the Year'

Erdogan won the honor by a large margin, receiving 74% of the vote.
(...)
CNN Arabic, based in Dubai, stated that the results of the poll represent the "general mood of the Arab street,"

CNN Arabic readers vote Erdogan 'Man of th... JPost - Middle East

So did they get to vote three or four times this round? Or is this out of 300%?

You can write an E-Mail to CNN-Arabic and ask them.

 

[ekrem]

I've been to Izmir and Kusadasi. I didn't see any macaroni and cheese.

Why would you want to eat Macaroni whilst you are being in Turkey.
Turkish cuisine is together with French and Chinese cuisine the most diverse on the planet. And no, there is not served frog or dog.

Next time ask for "Makarna" and you'll get Italian style macaroni.

 

[annesmith]

I want to visit the place someday

 

[hipeter924]

CNN Arabic readers vote Erdogan 'Man of the Year'

Erdogan won the honor by a large margin, receiving 74% of the vote.
(...)
CNN Arabic, based in Dubai, stated that the results of the poll represent the "general mood of the Arab street,"

CNN Arabic readers vote Erdogan 'Man of th... JPost - Middle East

So did they get to vote three or four times this round? Or is this out of 300%?

You can write an E-Mail to CNN-Arabic and ask them.

And get a firm rebuttal, I doubt these polls they run are any more accurate than the Fox news ones.

 

[ekrem]

New Brookings Institution poll in 5 Arab countries
(Full poll in PDF)
http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Fi..._opinion_telhami/1121_arab_public_opinion.pdf


(Key findings)

Among the key poll findings are:
- Turkey is the biggest winner of the Arab Spring. In the five countries polled, Turkey is seen to have played the "most constructive" role in the Arab events.

2011 Arab Public Opinion Poll: Results of Arab Opinion Survey Conducted October 2011 - Brookings Institution

Next 2 graphics only Egyptians about Egypt elections

 

[JStone]

Arabs and Muslimes are animals.

Burak Bekdil, Hurriyet, Turkey: Golda Meir Was Right Why Golda Meir was right - Hurriyet Daily News

It has been more than two and a half years since Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told to Israeli President Shimon Peres’s face, “You (Jews) know well how to kill.” Prime Minister Erdoğan has also declared more than a few times that the main obstacle to peace in this part of the world is Israel, once calling the Jewish state “a festering boil in the Middle East that spreads hate and enmity.” In this holy month of Ramadan full of blood on Muslim territories, let’s try to identify who are the ones who know well how to kill.

As the Syrian death count clicks every day to come close to 2,000, the Turkish-Kurdish death count does not stop, already over 40,000 since 1984, both adding to the big pool of blood called the Middle East. Only during this Ramadan, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK’s, death toll has reached 50 in this Muslim Kurds vs. Muslim Turks war. This excludes the PKK casualties in Turkey and in northern Iraq due to Turkish military retaliation since they are seldom accurately reported.

Sudan is not in the conventional Middle East, so let’s ignore the genocide there. Let’s ignore, also, the West Pakistani massacres in East Pakistan (Bangladesh) totaling 1.25 million in 1971. Or 200,000 deaths in Algeria in war between Islamists and the government in 1991-2006.

But a simple, strictly Middle East research will give you one million deaths in the all-Muslim Iran-Iraq war; 300,000 Muslim minorities killed by Saddam Hussein; 80,000 Iranians killed during the Islamic revolution; 25,000 deaths in 1970-71, the days of Black September, by the Jordanian government in its fight against the Palestinians; and 20,000 Islamists killed in 1982 by the elder al-Assad in Hama. The World Health Organization’s estimate of Osama bin Laden’s carnage in Iraq was already 150,000 a few years earlier.

In a 2007 research, Gunnar Heinsohn from the University of Bremen and Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum, found out that some 11 million Muslims have been violently killed since 1948, of which 35,000, (0.3 percent) died during the six years of Arab war against Israel, or one out of every 315 fatalities. In contrast, over 90 percent who perished were killed by fellow Muslims.

According to Mssrs. Heinsohn and Pipes, the grisly inventory finds the total number of deaths in conflicts all over the world since 1950 numbering around 85 million. Of that, the Muslim Arab deaths in the Arab-Israeli conflict were at 46,000 including 11,000 during Israel’s war of independence. That makes 0.05 percent of all deaths in all conflicts, or 0.4 percent of all Arab deaths in the Arab-Israeli conflict.

In another calculation ignoring “small” massacres like the one that goes on in Syria and other deaths during the Arab Spring, only Saddam’s Iraq, Jordan, the elder al-Assad’s Syria, Iran-Iraq war, the bin Laden campaign in Iraq, the Iranian Islamic revolution and the Turkish-Kurdish conflict caused 1.65 million Muslim deaths by Muslims compared to less than 50,000 deaths in the Arab-Israeli conflict since 1950, including fatalities during and after Operation Cast Lead which came after the Heinsohn-Pipes study. For those who don’t have a calculator ready at their desks, allow me to tell: 50,000 is three percent of 1.65 million.

Golda Meir, the fourth prime minister of Israel, or rather the “Mother of Israel,” had a perfectly realistic point when she said that peace in the Middle East would only be possible “when Arabs love their children more than they hate us.”

 

[ekrem]

Regional powerhouse because Israel's, Iran's, Syria's economy combined doesn't match nominal economic output of Turkey.

 

[Ropey]

Two more days....