Poll reveals our differences
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Oluşturulma Tarihi: Nisan 09, 2006 12:17
The purchasing of 46% of Finansbank by The National Bank of Athens has left its mark on both sides of the Aegean Sea. Greek public research company, Kapa Research, looked into what the Turkish and Greek public felt about this sale, and its effect in other areas.
According to the poll, 73.4% of Greeks are happy that the NBG has bought the majority of Finansbank, while 64.1% of Turks feel the same way.
Kapta Research called 613 homes in Athens and 602 in Istanbul and spoke to both Greek and Turkish over 18’s.
The result depends on the company:
The question, “How would you feel if a Greek company bought a Turkish company and a Turkish company bought a Greek company?”, that was directed at the participants of the poll, produced results showing that Greeks would prefer Greeks to buy, and Turks not to. When a “working bank” was in question, 15% of Greeks gave a positive response, 15.7% were indifferent and 68.2% were opposed to the idea. As for their Turkish counterparts, 44.9% looked on this in a positive light, while those that had a pessimistic view of such sales were 26.9% and 22.3% remained indifferent.
Similar questions were posed regarding different types of companies such as mobile phone operators and supermarkets. Greeks gave a 63.1% negative, 15.7 indifferent, and only 14.4% positive response to the changing of hands of mobile phone operators, while Turks seemed more positive, with 39.4% giving a positive and 33.8% negative response to the same question. A similar pattern was found in the other questions put to those participating in the poll.
This will effect relations
Although the proportion of positive and negative responses is not quite the same, members of the public in both countries appear to regard the cooperation between banks in the two countries in a positive light. They believe this cooperation will improve relations between the two countries.