"Arab regimes ignore Turkey's democratic example By Saad Eddin Ibrahim and Mensur Akgun Commentary by Friday, September 07, 2007
We were both in Turkey before and after Sunday, July 22, the day of the intensely fought parliamentary elections. Given the contentiousness of large-scale demonstrations and the fears of military intervention over the issue of secularism, there were hundreds of international observers expecting something spectacular to happen. But to their dismay, and to the dismay of many others, balloting was calm and orderly."
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