Azerbaijan Best, France Worst for Turks

The United States was next on the list with 3.6 per cent, followed by Greece with 4.2 per cent and Russia with 17.7 per cent. The three most trusted countries are Azerbaijan with 71.4 per cent, Pakistan with 47.3 per cent, and Iran with 29 per cent.

On Oct. 12, France’s National Assembly approved a bill that makes it a crime to deny that the state-sponsored deportation campaign undertaken by the Turkish government from 1915 to 1917—which targeted the Armenian population—actually constituted a genocide.

Some Turkish consumer organizations have called for a ban on French products. On Oct. 22, Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan pleaded for calm, saying, "What do we have to win or lose by boycotting? We should consider that with a great deal of caution.

/Angus Reid Global Monitor/