Good Timing for Turkey’s Pivot to Central Asia

Ankara has always been interested but there’s a new sense of urgency now.

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Last week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Central Asia twice. He first went to Uzbekistan to attend a summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization and then to Kazakhstan to participate in the 10th anniversary summit of the Organization of Turkic States. The trip was part of Turkey’s renewed engagement with Central Asia – which […]

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