Abstract:

In the world economy, countries tend to increase their foreign trade for various reasons, mainly for reasons such as meeting their needs, obtaining currency revenues and developing their trade, and thus increase their prosperity. At this point, economies, on the one hand, strive to lead in the product supply size, mainly activities, while on the other hand, using regional proximity, they tend to develop their economic relations at the regional level and increase their foreign trade. Here, geographical proximity is an important determinant, and in this geographical proximity it is important to consider that the views and trends of the country’s communities on the economic level are important. In this article, the perceptions of the communities in Bulgaria, Moldova and Ukraine (as the whole universe and single economies) on the economic level on the subject of Turkey were measured in the context of examples and analysed by the Kruskal-Wallis Test, Mann-Whitney tests. The analysis shows that the examples in the whole of the study have a positive view on the development of economic and commercial relations with Turkey, in a variable degree. The positive view and tendency towards Turkey is at high levels, especially in Moldova and Ukraine. This positive viewpoint in Moldova should emphasize the relative impact of the Gagauz community and the existence of the Free Trade Agreement which came into force in 2016 and the right of free movement of citizens of the two countries which came into force in 2018. In Bulgaria, which is another country under the research scope, compared to other countries, a relative decline in the positive views and trends towards Turkey has been seen. It can be thought that the differentiation here is mostly derived from the historical negative subconsciousness of the Bulgarian society and that the development of the relations between the two societies and the economy and this perception can change.