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ilovecyprus


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Message Posted:
12/08/2008 18:25

TURKISH Cypriot newspapers yesterday questioned the widely different results of two polls, one in the north and one in the south, carried out by the same research company.



The two polls, one for the Turkish Cypriot National Unity Party (UBP) and one for Greek Cypriot newspaper Simerini, were both carried out by KADEM.



What they had in common ended there, however.



The poll for the UBP, in addition to giving the party the majority of the support of those polled, concluded that 62 per cent of Turkish Cypriots supported two separate states.



In the Simerini poll by the same company, this percentage was 42.7.



The UBP survey said supporters of a federal solution were 14 per cent compared to 30 per cent in the Simerini poll.



Answering a question on a continuation of the status quo, the UBP said 7.0 per cent preferred this option compared to 15.8 per cent in the Simerini poll.



The UBP poll also gave the party, headed by Tahsin Ertugruloglu, 40.5 per cent support compared to only 30.3 per cent for the Republican Turkish Party of Mehmet Ali Talat.



On the Cyprus issue, the UBP survey found that 71 per cent believe that the new Cyprus negotiation would not end positively, while 67 per cent said that they would vote against the Annan Plan if the 2004 referendum was to be repeated in Cyprus. Only 6.7 per cent said they trusted the Republic of Cyprus.



The majority of Turkish Cypriot papers referred to the two polls on their front pages yesterday.



Ortam’s headline read: “Manipulation” with reference to the result of the UBP poll and Kibrisli asked: “Is the opinion poll of KADEM fraudulent?’



“It is not possible to understand how KADEM reached to these results so different from each other during meetings in the same days with the same people. ...The results put forward recently by KADEM are not fitting for a serious and reliable institution,” the paper said.



Meanwhile Simerini published the second part of their poll yesterday.



Highlights included the fact hat 82 per cent of Turkish Cypriots did not want to live under a Greek Cypriot administration, 46 per cent do not want to return any territory to the Republic of Cyprus, although 50 per cent said some territory should be returned varying from five per cent to 15 per cent.



Some 46 per cent also say they have no confidence at all in Greek Cypriots while 38 per cent trust them “somewhat” and 16 per cent said they have a “fair amount” of trust in Greek Cypriots.



Over 50 per cent said they would have no problem with Greek Cypriots living among them as long as the Greek Cypriots were a minority.



The vast majority would also have a problem if their children married a Greek Cypriot. Only 15 per cent said it would not bother them at all.



In a section relating to the popularity of Greek and Turkish Cypriot politicians, 44.3 per cent said they viewed Talat favourable while 26 per cent viewed him negatively.



Only 25.4 per cent viewed the UBP’s Ertugruloglu positively compared to 43 per cent who viewed him negatively.



Over 30 per cent of Turkish Cypriots felt favourable towards President Demetris Christofias compared to 43.5 per cent who viewed him negatively.



The remainder of Greek Cypriot politicians got short shrift from the Turkish Cypriots. Although over half of those polled said they didn’t know enough about them, between one quarter and one third said they had negative impressions of House President Marios Karoyian, EDEK leader Yiannakis Omirou and European Party leader Demetris Syllouris.



Only opposition DISY leader Nicos Anastassiades came close to being remotely positive in the view of 15 per cent of Turkish Cypriots. And even then, 35 per cent said they viewed him negatively.

MUSIN M


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Message Posted:
13/08/2008

mark



what is your conclusion from those figures .







musin

cyprusishome


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Message Posted:
13/08/2008 00:07

As this is statistically a load of rubbish because no numbers of people questioned is included how can any conclusion be drawn. Even worse there is no mention of demography.



It is a bit like asking 3 people if Gordon Brown is a good PM. If all 3 are labour supporters the answer would be no. Or if all 3 were Conservatives the answer would be - undecided!!!!!!!!!!

PtePike



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Message Posted:
13/08/2008 17:21

I agree with David. Who are these KADEM people and can they be trusted? Also, UBP is the party of the Turkish settlers.