Writing for the US site Instapundit, Claire Berlinski dismisses fears from rightwing bloggers, such as Michele Malkin, that Turkey is lurching towards radical Islam.
Reporting from the headquarter of the victorious AKP, she writes - with pictures - to prove her point:
"I felt completely welcome and comfortable even though I was wearing the shortest skirt in my wardrobe. I don't at all dismiss concerns about the AKP, and I think my credentials as someone who takes the rise of Islamic extremism seriously are well established, but what I saw tonight was utterly benign."
Ertugrul Ozkok, writing in the centrist daily paper, Hürriyet, also thinks fears about Turkey turning Islamist are overblown.
"Recep Tayyip Erdogan [the prime minister] now sits firmly in the central right tradition of the Menderes-Demirel-Özal troika. And I do not believe he will act in opposition to the general profile of this tradition ... No one needs to worry."
The Financial Times also sees the AKP as a national conservative party, albeit as one that rebalances power away from the urban elite and towards the traditional heartland of Anatolia, as well as towards the Muslim equivalent of Europe's Christian democrats.
The New York Times welcomes the AKP's victory, saying it shows how Muslim democracy can be a powerful weapon in the war of ideas against what it calls Islamic terrorism.
"Voters rightly rejected the claim asserted by the traditional military-secular establishment that there is any fundamental incompatibility between democracy and Islam. Instead, they rewarded a party that has given the country its most competent and successful government in recent decades. That is exactly how democracy is supposed to work."
And in the Turkish Daily News, Yusuf Kanli, a social democrat who is no fan of the AKP, finds fault with the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) - the political heirs of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey - for being out tune with the mood for change and reform and for running a nationalist campaign that played into the hands of the extreme far-right National Movement party.
