Poll: US single biggest threat to Turks’ security

Meanwhile, a recent poll by the Pew Research Center put the US favorability rating in Turkey at 9 percent versus 52 percent in 2000. Turks now see the United States as the single biggest threat to their nation's security.

"The fact is that Secretary Rice is going into the jaws of a real credibility problem and is up against some real narrow parameters in terms of what she can do to overcome that credibility problem," Parris, now with the Brookings Institution, told Reuters.