Turkey’s Policy in Central Asia: Are Ambitions Well-Founded?

... first attempt at creating a prototype military organization that had the potential to become a platform for communication between all the law enforcement, military and security agencies in the region with Ankara at the helm of it. Talks on strengthening military cooperation between Turkey and Central Asian countries started after the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was resumed in 2020. In October 2020, at the height of military hostilities, Minister of National Defence of Turkey Hulusi Akar visited Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. During his ...