World Press on Iran, Turkey and the Caucasus (February 8, 2011)

The Washington Post has recently published an article headlined "Democracies don't happen overnight". The author of the article, Richard Cohen, believes that the USA isn't interested in democratic Egypt that breaks its treaty with Israel. Moreover he doubts that the country will become democratic since there's no democratic country in the Arab world. He thinks that President Obama's administration is unable to control the situation.

Today The Los Angeles Times ran an article entitled "The real 'realism' on Israel". Jonah Goldberg, the author of this article, is trying to find out the truth about the present day situation in the Middle East. According to him, Israel isn't the matter of all conflicts and debates and the country shouldn't be seen as a most important one in the Middle East that needs US protection and support. "Egypt's uprising is not about Israel, and Turkey is not Islamifying because of the Palestinians," says Goldberg.

The New York Times has published an article headlined "Speakers' Corner on the Nile" devoted to the revolution in Egypt and its possible impact on the situation in the Middle East in general. The author believes that the democratic revolution in the country has given many people a hope that the Arab world will become free. "In a region where the truth and truth-tellers have so long been smothered under the crushing weight of oil, autocracy and religious obscurantism, suddenly the Arab world has a truly free space   a space that Egyptians themselves, not a foreign army, have liberated   and the truth is now gushing out of here like a torrent from a broken hydrant," says the author.

Today The Guardian published an article headlined "This is no 1989 moment for the Arab world". The authors of the article, Harris Mylonas and Wilder Bullard don't believe that the recent revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt will bring democracy to the Middle East. "Protests in Tunisia and Egypt differ from popular uprisings that brought democracy to Eastern Europe from 1989 onwards", say the authors of the article, "While it is possible that the Egyptian uprising may result in a Turkish-style democratic state, a corridor of state failure from Kinshasa to Beirut is also not an unlikely outcome".

The Turkish news agency Hurriyet has recently published an article entitled "Where is the proactive Davutolu?" The author underlines that generally hyperactive Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has not made an official statement over the situation in the Arab world. According to him, Turkey doesn't react because the country's officials have no accurate information and fear to make a mistake in this chaos.