The public poll was carried out by stratified sampling and weighting method in 28 provinces based on 26 regions according to the NUTS 2 system throughout Turkey.
More than half of the Turkish respondents stated that the U.S. posed the biggest threat to their country in 2022. Russia ranked as the second most selected country, posing a major threat to Turkey.
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