60% of Turkish voters feel negative about politics, poll finds

About 60% of voters in Türkiye hold negative feelings toward politics, while fewer than one in 10 say they feel hopeful, according to a Metropoll survey released in October.

Asked which emotion they had felt most frequently about politics lately, 22% of respondents said disappointment, 18.1% anxiety, 11.4% anger and 8.3% irritation, according to Metropoll’s Türkiye's Pulse survey for October 2026.

Together, the four negative emotions account for 59.8%.

Trust was cited by 11.1% and hope by 9.8%, while 10.2% said they felt indifferent.

Another 1.9% said all of them, 1.4% none, 0.3% other and 5.5% had no opinion or did not respond.

"As the election approaches, the government would be well advised to take these public sentiments into account," said Ozer Sencar, the founder and Chairman of the Board of MetroPOLL Research, regarding the survey findings.

Metropoll: Disappointment across parties

Broken down by vote in the May 14, 2023 parliamentary election, disappointment was highest among pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) voters at 37.2%, followed by Republican People’s Party (CHP) voters at 27.3% and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) voters at 24.8%.

Among Justice and Development Party (AK Party) voters, hope was the most common emotion at 19%, narrowly ahead of disappointment at 18.8%, with trust at 13.5% and anxiety at 12.9%.

CHP voters reported the highest anger, at 18.2%, along with 15% anxiety.

MHP voters were split evenly between disappointment and anxiety at 24.8% each, with 14.3% indifferent.

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Anxiety was most pronounced among Good Party (Iyi Party) voters at 38.2%, who also reported 21.6% irritation and just 1% hope.

DEM Party voters reported 20.9% anxiety, while protest voters cited anxiety (22.1%), indifference (20.3%) and disappointment (18%) most often.

The survey was conducted Oct. 16-22, 2026, with 1,313 people in 28 provinces based on the 26 NUTS-2 regions, using stratified sampling, weighting and computer-assisted telephone interviewing.

The overall margin of error is 2.65% points at a 95% confidence level; margins for party subgroups range from 4.84 points for AK Party voters to 10.29 points for DEM Party voters, Metropoll said.

November 14, 2026 05:08 PM GMT+03:00