"Peace In The Mideast, And Turkey
BYEGM: 1/11/2005
BY ULUC GURKAN
STAR- This week�s presidential elections in Palestine were the first step of the Middle East�s 2005 election timetable. The second will be in Iraq. Next partial local elections will be held in Saudi Arabia, and new presidents will be elected in Iran in June, and Egypt in October. What do these elections mean? Will the Middle East�s Islamic geography meet democracy this way? The answer to this question is relevant to what sort of a democracy the US wants in the Middle East because those polls in Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Egypt will be held as part of the US� Greater Middle East Project (GME). Similarly, elections in Palestine were held this way. Can we say that these elections will be an initial step on the way to democracy? Some people argue for this. However, nobody thinks that this will be first-rate democracy, that is, nobody believes that the region will be remade on the basis of democracy. It will be a second-class democracy. "
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