Asked to assess Turkey’s response to the crisis in Syria 69% of Syrians surveyed characterised the response as ‘negative’ with only 23% characterising it as ‘positive’.

The survey was conducted 3-28 August 2012 by the Turkish Economics and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV) which is an independent think-tank supported by the German Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and associated with the Centre for American Progress (ie hardly a radical organisation). The 2012 results, which are contained in a report titled “The perception of Turkey in the Middle East 2012,” have been partially published (in Turkish) – a detailed report on the findings will be published in English on the TESEV website in the near future (according to the TESEV website).

The survey has been conducted on an annual basis for the last four years and measures public opinion across the Middle East. It is worth noting, whilst Hillary Clinton is busy trying to mould a violent opposition, that in the 2011 survey, held once the Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia backed insurgency was already in full swing, the Syrian people overwhelmingly rejected violent protest with only 5% being in favour.

Prisoners of the FSA, moments before they are beaten and then massacred in cold blood.

The results of the survey undermine further the immoral and inhumane policy of supporting an unpopular, sectarian uprising, which rests heavily on foreign, al Qaeda and openly criminal, genocidal elements and which has led to an escalating human rights disaster with the death of thousands of Syrians and destruction of the country.

By Human rights investigations
evidence-based, independent and rigorous investigation of human rights abuses
November 4, 2012