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As Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets with President Obama today, his calls for more Western aid to Syrian rebels put him at odds with Turkish public opinion.<\/p>\n\n

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A Pew Research survey<\/a>\u00a0conducted earlier this spring found that 68% of Turks opposed Western countries sending weapons and other supplies to anti-government rebels in Syria — the second-highest level of opposition among the six predominantly Muslim countries surveyed\u00a0in the region.<\/p>\n\n

Similarly high majorities in Turkey opposed aid to the rebels by Arab nations (66%) and their own country (65%).<\/p>\n\n

Erdogan has pressured<\/a> the Obama administration to provide military aid to the rebels seeking to oust Syrian president Bashar al-Assad; hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees have poured into Turkey, and Erdogan’s government has blamed Assad’s regime for car bombings<\/a> that killed 46 people last week in a Turkish border town.<\/p>\n\n

In the Pew Research survey, which was conducted before those blasts, 62% of Turks said they were “very” or “somewhat” concerned about the violence in Syria spreading to their country.<\/p>\n\n

The Turks’ opposition to outside intervention in the Syrian conflict doesn’t, however, mean they support Assad. Of Turks surveyed, 72% said they had an unfavorable opinion of the Syrian leader (including 48% with a “very unfavorable” view); only 8% viewed Assad favorably.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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