Armenians want open borders with Turkey, worried Turkey will join EU – poll
Mediamax news agency
7 Oct 04
YEREVAN
Fifty-seven per cent of those polled by the Vox Populi Centre of
Electoral Systems in Yerevan support the opening of the
Armenian-Turkish border and the restoration of transport
communications between the two countries. A total of 648 people took
part in the poll in Yerevan on 1-5 October. Thirty-three per cent of
those polled did not want the border to be opened, whereas 10 per cent
found it difficult to answer the question.
Forty-three per cent of those polled said that Turkey’s admittance to
the European Union would have a negative effect on Armenia’s
interests, whereas 17 per cent were of the opposite opinion, 18 per
cent said they did not care and 22 per cent could not answer the
question.
Asked whether present-day Turkey bears responsibility for the 1915
Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey, 19 per cent of those polled said
it did, 25 per cent said it most probably did, 17 per cent said it
most probably did not, 15 per cent that it did not while 24 per cent
of those polled found it difficult to answer the question.