People of Antakya (Antioch) in Turkey demonstrate against the imperialism attack against Syria. They disagree with the support of the FSA by Prime Minister Erdogan and the turkish government. They also condemned the setting up of bases on Turkey’s soil to train terrorists under the direct supervision of the US in order to support the FSA. The development came after revelations about the smuggling of arms to anti-government terrorist groups in Syria via the US Air Base in Incirlik in Southern Turkey sparked popular protests in the country.
A poll between May 5 and June 5 conducted by the "Center for Economic and Foreign Policy Studies" (EDAM), an Istanbul-based think-tank, showed that a majority of the Turkish people are against their country’s intervention in Syria. According to the poll, as much as 57% of the 1,500 participants in the survey expressed their opposition to the Turkish government’s
intervention in Syria’s internal affairs, and said they favored a diplomatic solution to the Syrian crisis. The poll representing a cross section of the urban and rural population above the age of 18. The cities which were included in the survey: Adana, Ankara, Antalya, Bursa, Diyarbakir, Manisa, Erzurum, Gaziantep, Istanbul, Izmir, Kayseri, Kirklareli, Konya, Içel, Samsun, Zonguldak, Denizli, Malatya.
The EDAM poll
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