ISTANBUL, Oct 24, SPA -- Less than a third of Turksthink Turkey must enter the European Union, a poll showed onTuesday, the latest sign of waning support for membership asAnkara faces increasing pressure from Brussels, REUTERS REPORTED. The survey, carried out by pollsters A&G and published innewspaper Milliyet, showed 32.2 percent thought Turkey "mustcertainly enter the EU", a sharp decline on last year's 57.4percent and 67.5 percent in 2004. The poll, which shows a more dramatic decline in EU supportthan other recent surveys, comes as Brussels urges Turkey tostep up reforms and make concessions over the dividedMediterranean island of Cyprus if it is to avoid a possiblefreeze in membership talks later this year. The poll results could make it harder for Prime MinisterTayyip Erdogan, who faces a general election in November 2007,to push through unpopular measures demanded by the EU. Of the 2,408 people polled, 25.6 percent said Turkey "shouldcertainly not enter the EU", more than twice the 10.3 percentwho felt that way last year, when Turkey began entry talks. The survey was carried out in late September, and since thennationalism and anti-EU feeling has been fuelled further by alaw passed in the French parliament making it a crime to deny --as Ankara does -- that Ottoman Turks carried out a genocideagainst Armenians in 1915. The poll also showed that 76.5 percent of Turks expecttougher conditions to be imposed on them in the future and only7.2 percent trust the EU. Many Turks, including the government,complain that Brussels is changing the rules as it goes alongover Cyprus. The EU is due to present a report on Turkey's progress onNov. 8, which will likely criticise Ankara for a lack of reformon issues such as minority and religious rights, and freedom ofspeech after nationalist prosecutors have continued to takejournalists and writers to court over insulting "Turkishness". --SPA www.spa.gov.sa/397918