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ASHGABAT (TCA) — Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov in Ashgabat received the Chairman of the Union of Chambers and Exchanges of the Republic of Turkey Rifat Hisarjyklyoglu, the state-run newspaper Turkmenistan: Golden Age reported on August 2. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — With the commissioning of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway line this year, cargo from China will be transported through Kazakhstan along a shorter route to Turkey and on to Europe. This was said during a working trip to Azerbaijan and Georgia by Kanat Alpysbayev, the head of Kazakhstan’s national railways company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), the company’s press service reported on July 25. Alpysbayev visited the objects of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway line, whose commissioning is planned for October this year. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Turkey has barred the entrance of thousands of people from the former Soviet Union, including from Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, whom it suspects of having ties to Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq, RFE/RL reports. Continue reading
ASHGABAT (TCA) — A trilateral meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, and Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov will take place in Turkmenistan before the end of this year, Turkish Ambassador to Turkmenistan Mustafa Kapucu said, Russia’s Sputnik news agency reported. Continue reading
TASHKENT (TCA) — As relations between Tashkent and Ankara have been showing signs of improvement after the death of longtime President Islam Karimov, Turkish businesses are expected to return to Uzbekistan’s market. We are republishing this article on the issue, originally published by EurasiaNet.org: Continue reading
LONDON (TCA) — It all looks like a shameful charade. But on a slightly longer term, Turkey’s referendum can be considered a step backward rather than forward and is certain to create more problems than it could possibly solve. It goes in the opposite direction of a trend emerging throughout Central Asia away from personality rule and towards a more collective form of government. While expected to have little immediate geopolitical spillover, the message sent by Turkey’s narrow majority in the direction of Central Asia is most of all psychological – and it is the wrong message. Continue reading
