The elections are in the past. The Turkish electorate has made its choice for the upcoming five years through democratic, transparent and pluralist elections for the local administrations and for the presidential office. The results are not expected to differ at the parliamentarian elections, which are due June 2015. In other words, the upcoming five years will require hard work focusing heavily on internal and external politics.The region has been going through a very difficult phase. The Middle East has been in a chaos where political boundaries lost their significance, even minimal democracy has vanished, and the right to live no longer prevails. Turkey hosts the one million Syrians who have fled their homeland in order to save their lives. Recently, a significant amount of the Christian and Yezidi minorities in Iraq were also accepted at the Habur gate. Turkey is currently in preparing a field hospital as well as refugee camps in the Northern Iraqi Kurdistan Autonomous Region. The Obama administration ended its indecision on the matter and took restricted military intervention against ISIS headway. Kurdish airspace is secured and arms aid for the peshmargas has been decided upon. The Telegraaf newspaper commented on the decision as "fighting back with French infantry rockets against the U.S.-made Abrams tanks which were sold to Saddam and currently held by ISIS." The description clearly outlines the indecision and confusion of the West before the developments in the Middle East.The Iraq Kurdish Regional Government took the decision to supply financial aid for ISIS victims. Simultaneously, Turkey took a brave step forward to stress that the trade of Kurdish Iraq petroleum in the international markets should not be restrained. Maliki government which was the most critical obstacle before the Kurdish Iraqi petroleum trade was forced to pull back for pushing the limits of tolerance of the Iraqi public and the U.S. Instead, the moderate candidate Al Abadi was assigned by the new president Fuad Masum. The silent stance of the Iranian administration on this nomination can be interpreted as they are not against this change.Alliances in the Middle East which were seen as impossible in the past are becoming reality today. The U.S. is in a negotiation process with Iran which has been internationally isolated by the former during the past few decades. The Kurdish issue which is one of the main problems in the region (particularly Turkey) is about to be resolved. The deadlock in Israeli politics and the increasing massacres in Gaza has enforced the urgent resolution in the Palestinian dispute.All these issues together, show that we are witnessing the designing of a new Middle East. If peace will come to this region, it will be only through consultation, negotiation and minimal democratic base, not in the shape of weapons. At this stage, Turkey seems to have a key role in the region with its democracy, stability and qualification of being a part of EU single market. President-elect Erdoğan's reputation and support in the Middle East, combined with his renewed democratic legitimacy and world leader stature, can become instrumental for such a transformation. At this stage, political opposition in Turkey should be totally revamped. Instead of seeing foreign policy, especially the Middle East, as a disputed field in which Assad and al-Maliki visits are realized in order to go against the government, at least a national reconciliation understanding should be reached. Not only the democratic interests of this region's people, but also our democratic future depends on it.