Foreign ministers meet over Caspian Sea legal status
ASTANA (TCA) — A regular meeting of foreign ministers of the five Caspian Sea littoral states took place in the Kazakh capital Astana on July 13. Continue reading
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Central Asia and Turkey’s repentance: too early for Turkish delight
LONDON (TCA) — Recep Erdoğan’s “mea culpa” and his attempts to get Turkey back on the political scene have been met with mild tolerance – but with less enthusiasm than he might have hoped for. The maneuver could restore “business as usual” between the former USSR and Turkey, but the latter is now under close watch by virtually everybody and “rebuilding mutual trust” is no matter of words but of deeds, the ball remaining in Turkey’s camp. Continue reading
Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of July 11, 2016
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Times of Central Asia presents to its readers Stratfor’s Global Intelligence, a weekly review of the most important events that happened in the world — from Europe to Middle East to Russia to Central Asia to Afghanistan to China and the Americas. Continue reading
Central Asia terror cells and Turkish connection
LONDON (TCA) — The longstanding plan to destroy the secular states of Central Asia and eventually that of Russia cherished by Daesh and its connected Central-Asian groups has been complicated by Turkey’s recent reconciliation move towards Moscow. This could explain the choice of Istanbul as the latest terror target and the fact that it was masterminded and carried out by former Soviet citizens, probably including at least one Kyrgyz and one Uzbek perpetrator. Continue reading
SCO summit in Uzbekistan: no clues on how the organization will fight Islamic terrorism
BISHKEK (TCA) — The recent summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) did not provide concrete answers to the most crucial problem of Central Asia and neighboring countries: an effective fight against Islamic terrorism. As indicated in the following article by Stephen Blank, originally published by The Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor, a multilateral cooperation is needed, and we should add that such cooperation should involve not only SCO members but an international group of nations interested in eradicating any type of terrorism wherever the same takes place, since terrorism has no boundaries. What has happened in Turkey, as well as in Brussels, Paris, and Saudi Arabia, demands an international coalition that should take priority over economic and political interests of different countries. Here below is Stephen Blank’s article: Continue reading
Russian president ratifies duty-free delivery of oil products to Tajikistan
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Russian President Vladimir Putin last week signed the law on ratification of the Agreement on cooperation with Tajikistan in oil products supplies, Avesta news agency reported. Continue reading
