I dont think anybody has questions about the poll´s finding here.

And I am not sure any of the Turks in TC or even in Turkey will challenge the results.

I am not an expert on how polls should be conducted but Konda is one of the most trustworthy research companies in Turkey.

I think the values from the poll should not be questioned as if it is a result of bogus journalism.

Mltm´s answers were the best and honest answers for example..

She is not questioning if 48% is right down there for instance. She is questioning if it is worrying or not.

significant proportion - 48% - who said the military should intervene "when necessary".
So???? This is not worrying.

ps..I am laughing by myself here right now..

I am hoping that some of Turks will join and they will start posting long articles and maps about great Israel and  a secret zionist plans to buy lands in south east of Turkey. And you will see with your own eyes how xenophobic some are..

"Turks are xenophobic, socially conservative people who rarely read books, relegate women to second-class status and harbour ambivalent views about democracy, contentious new research has revealed."

I don´t see how these conclusions can be made from the answers given, as reported in the article.  For instance, the inhabitants of my town in the UK are against people from out of town coming in and buying second homes.  This is because they are contributing to  housing shortages and rising prices , which affect the young people who want to get on the housing ladder.  Nothing to do with xenophobia and I don´t see this as any different to Turkish people wanting to control property sales to non Turks.

Some might find this article useful, It´s a Journalist´s Guide to Opinion Polls  http://www.britishpollingcouncil.org/questions.html

Before I concluded anything, I would want to see a blank copy of the questionnaire.  I often find these things rarely ask questions that allow the interviewee to give an exact answer. Often there are leading questions.  And some polls are commissioned by businesses/organisations that have an agenda.

There was also an article the other day about it

http://hurarsiv.hurriyet.com.tr/goster/haber.aspx?id=11052364&tarih=2009-02-21

 I think they were the ones that commissioned the poll.  It´s interesting that they choose a different headline to the other article.  I guess they have to think of ways to persuade people to buy their papers.  I´ll read it in full tomorrow.

Quoting mltm Some 73% opposed allowing foreigners to own Turkish land or property
Is this xenophobia??? 

I might add, most countries have laws against foriegners owning property in their countries. In the USA even if you do own property, you do not own the mineral rights....so if a coal country wants the coal under your house, they can get it.

Quoting mltm -Some 73% opposed allowing foreigners to own Turkish land or property

Is this xenophobia??? 

I might add, most countries have laws against foriegners owning property in their countries. In the USA even if you do own property, you do not own the mineral rights....so if a coal country wants the coal under your house, they can get it.

Quoting mltm -Just under 70% said they never read books

This one is worrying, but nothing new. We all know already that education is a major problem in Turkey.

I don´t particularly find this problematic. A lot of people read trashy books. Still in Turkey people find things to do that in the Western countries are not done...like cook from scratch, make beautiful rugs and carpets.....spend time visiting with each other.

Quoting mltm -72% said they never or rarely bought new hi-tech products as soon they appeared on the market. Could the reason be again financial???

  .........and since when is having the latest tech (enviorment polluting energy hogging)gizmo a measure of one´s worth?

Quoting mltm -Many also expressed fears that Turkey´s neighbours planned to carve up the country.

Well, just compare where Turkey geographically stands and where Germany stands. It´s not paranoia.

 If one looks at the map for the New Middle East...is there any wonder?

Quoting mltm -while nine out of 10 said they had never taken a holiday abroad.

Could this be simply because they do not have money even for a holiday in their own country?

Probably...even if they wanted to, could they get a visa?

You still have not answered how the poll that I saw about 911 should be interpreted by the way. Did you speed read that part, or you just don´t have any suggestions?

Nobody responded to this. I think the journal or interpreter aim to direct people intenionally. This has nothing to do with xenophobia. By the way whats the percentage of people who expressed their fears, all has percentage but this one is evaded only by “many”, if six thousand people have fear then we have a big problem...

In addition i really want to hear a poll done in European countries if they have xenophobia especially against Turks.  Perhaps cynicmystic can answer this as he had travelled many countries in Europe how they view Turks.

Other ones should be at least 47%, thats why today Turkey has a facist government like AKP and thats why Turks havent found any righteous leader throughout the Republic history yet, so it seems democracy is too much for Turkey, we need sharia or dictatorship and i hope AKP will provide this as US and EU supports them. I can understand US, its their politics, they support every obiedent so-called muslim leaders all over the world because these are good slaves, also good at deceiving people with religion and keep them sleep, like Saudi for example...

Are you a zionist or a nationalist, or an outright denier???

You cannot question the result nor the interpretations. It was done by Konda, remember?

No questioning, just accept and confirm... or else...

 I question the interpretation and still have doubts how representative is number 6400 of participants with unknown background (not to mention other details of the survey)for 70 million of population.

Decent polls require at least 10% of participants....In that case how can it be treated seriously?

And you can call me nationalist or whatever

Social polls and statistics give very rough answers, going to abstract conclusions with some specific questions can be very misleading.

With different polls, I´m sure I can get two very opposite conclusions of a same society:

I can get "Turkish people are the most secular people" and by another poll I can get the conclusion: "The majority of turkish people are for Sharia"

Again with different polls, I bet I can have a conclusion that "Turks are the most hospitable people", while with different poll questions, I can conclude that "Turks are xenophobes"

If we want, we can make every single country xenophobe by simply a few polls asking a  few questions. I can make France racist, Germany racist, United States racist, Japan racist, every single country.

Polls are the most generalist, simplist and unrealiable way to make abstract conclusions such as xenophobe, racist, happy, sad, hostile, paranoic, hospitable, lovely about a society.

Apperantly you have no idea about "survey methods". do you think they go to a nationalist village in anatolia and ask people what they think about foreigners? do you think they dont  choose samples from every class of societyd every ideology? be sure they must have gone to either Niþantaþý or Yozgat for this poll. do you remember that Konda conducted a poll before 2007 election and its results were the closest to the election´s results.