"Turkish Policy toward Central Asia
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Sunday , 18 May 2008
By Bulent ARAS
Turkey was among the first countries to recognize the Central Asian republics immediately upon their independence in the early 1990s. The emergence of sister states, sometimes called the “Turkic republics” including Tajikistan, precipitated an outbreak of excitement in almost all political wings in Turkey. A Turkish world from the Adriatic to the Chinese wall became a new topic of discussion in Turkish policy circles and the media."
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