I'm sometimes not sure whether or not stuff that pops up on the Atlantic frontpage is available to non-subscribers (you should, naturally,
subcribe) but this
December 2004 Robert Kaplan article about how the rise of the moderate Islamist AK Party in Turkey is a good thing is really good and well-worth digesting in light of their recent
electoral victory and some of the fretting over it I've seen.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/07/learning-to-love-the-ak/43716/