Telenovelas and TV series dazzle Turkish Arabs who dream of cosmopolitan Istanbul as a destination for a honeymoon. But the Arab world also envy the economic progress and freedom from the Turks. Two out of three citizens from eight Middle Eastern countries believe that Turkey is the political model for the region and the one that best reconciles Islam with democracy.
A survey has just been presented in Ankara by the Turkish Economic and Social Research (http://www. TESEV. Org. Tr) shows that 66% of the inhabitants of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Iraq and the Palestinian territories as a look favorably on Turkey's political system refers to the region, and a similar proportion considered "the best synthesis of democracy and Islam." Among the 2267 people questioned in the survey, conducted between August and September 2010, the Islamic tradition of Turkey is the most prominent factor in 15% of cases, followed by economic strength (12%), its democratic system (11 %) and their attitude in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (10%), to name the four responses with the highest percentage.
For 12% of respondents who reject the Turkish model in the region, the main reasons are its secular constitution (12% of this group), weak Islamic identity (11%), their close relations with the West (10%) or simply because the Middle East does not require any model (8%). In fact, Turkey is the only functioning democracy in the region and a single reference model.
The formidable rotation that resulted in 2002 rise to power of the ruling Justice and Development (moderate Islamist) marks the rise of Turkish prestige in the Arab world, where 78% of citizens believe that Ankara must increase its political influence and economic. The defiant attitude of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Israel, at the Davos Forum in 2009 and after the assault on the fleet of Gaza in 2010, has also become the ruling Turkish champion of the Arab street, which now rages in wave of change after the popular revolution of Tunisia. 
A survey has just been presented in Ankara by the Turkish Economic and Social Research (http://www. TESEV. Org. Tr) shows that 66% of the inhabitants of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Iraq and the Palestinian territories as a look favorably on Turkey's political system refers to the region, and a similar proportion considered "the best synthesis of democracy and Islam." Among the 2267 people questioned in the survey, conducted between August and September 2010, the Islamic tradition of Turkey is the most prominent factor in 15% of cases, followed by economic strength (12%), its democratic system (11 %) and their attitude in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (10%), to name the four responses with the highest percentage.
For 12% of respondents who reject the Turkish model in the region, the main reasons are its secular constitution (12% of this group), weak Islamic identity (11%), their close relations with the West (10%) or simply because the Middle East does not require any model (8%). In fact, Turkey is the only functioning democracy in the region and a single reference model.
The formidable rotation that resulted in 2002 rise to power of the ruling Justice and Development (moderate Islamist) marks the rise of Turkish prestige in the Arab world, where 78% of citizens believe that Ankara must increase its political influence and economic. The defiant attitude of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Israel, at the Davos Forum in 2009 and after the assault on the fleet of Gaza in 2010, has also become the ruling Turkish champion of the Arab street, which now rages in wave of change after the popular revolution of Tunisia.
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