"Success of Turkey’s AK Party must not dilute worries over Arab Islamists
Mona Eltahawy
It has been unsurprising that since Abdullah Gul became president of Turkey on 27 August that much misguided analyses has been wasted on how 'Islamists' can pass the democracy test. His victory was bound to be described as the 'Islamist' routing of Turkish politics. And Arab Islamists - in the form of the Muslim Brotherhood, their supporters and defenders - were always going to point to Turkey and tell us that we've been wrong all along to worry about the Arab Islamist' alleged flirtation with democracy. 'It worked in Turkey, it can work in the Arab world,' they would try to assure us. Wrong. Wrong. And wrong."
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