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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
BISHKEK (TCA) — On June 30 Turkish media reported that one of the suicide bombers who attacked Istanbul's Ataturk International Airport this week was from Kyrgyzstan. The media reported the attack was conducted by citizens of Russia (Chechnya), Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The OSCE’s role and activities in Security Sector Governance and Reform in Central Asia, and the challenges and opportunities in the field, are the focus of a three-day regional seminar hosted by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, which began on June 28 in the Kyrgyz capital. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — An-OSCE supported conference attended by some 100 participants from 20 countries on international cooperation in countering terrorist and extremist organizations through the use of modern communication technologies concluded on June 18 in Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, the OSCE Centre in Bishkek reported. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — As Central Asian countries face a growing potential military threat from Islamic terrorism based in Afghanistan, we are republishing the following article by Aleksandr Golts, originally published by The Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor: Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — At the meeting of Kazakhstan’s Security Council last Friday, President Nursultan Nazarbayev described the June 5 attacks in the Kazakh city of Aktobe senseless and cruel and said that the Salafi movement was responsible for them. Continue reading
