Another stable democracy in the Mid-East - Turkey

American Thinker: The Relative Stablity of Turkey:

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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was one of the most fascinating, impressive, and unlikely figures of the past century. A Muslim from birth who became a champion of the secular state, a dictator who established the sole working democracy in the Muslim world, an ascetic visionary who died of complications of alcoholism, Kemal deserves to be much better known than he is. He accomplished with Turkey what many insist even today is an impossibility: dragging a battered, defeated, nearly medieval Muslim state into the modern era by main force, and without the wholesale brutality demonstrated by nearly all other nationalist leaders of his era."

Israel is usually cited as the only democracy in the Middle East - we forget that Turkey is a Muslim democracy (with Iraq struggling to enter the scene).