This has to be a matter of "point of view". If we look at history the Middle East if full of despots, strongmen and Kings and not much else. All have ruled with an "Iron Fist" and have killed anyone who questions their authority. There are few exceptions to this in Israel, Lebanon and up until recently Turkey. But Turkey has now basically lost it's democracy.
What has changed for Turkey?
Syria, Iraq and Yemen and Iran and Russia.
Turkey feels threatened by what is happening in all these countries so it is regressing back to making Erdogan a Despot Strongman much like Saddam Hussein was. So, likely we might expect a war between Iran and Turkey at some point in the near or far future similar to the one between Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Iran in the 1980s.
But, are human rights growing or waning in the Middle East in general. I would have to say they are on the wane right now looking at what is happening especially to Sunni Muslims in Iraq and Syria and what is happening to Shia Muslims in Yemen.
So, right now genocide of Sunni Muslims in Syria and IRaq is taking place and genocide of Shia Muslims in Yemen is taking place. So, at least for right now I would say in the trouble spots it is evident that even the right to live for peaceful people doesn't presently exist in Syria, Iraq or Yemen.
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