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Turkey lends support to caretaker Kyrgyz government
Ahead of his attendance at the inauguration ceremony, Davutoğlu held a bilateral meeting with Almazbek Atambayev, Kyrgyzstan's first deputy prime minister. Following their meeting, Davutoğlu and Atambayev signed an agreement which outlined Turkey's donation of $21 million to the turbulent Central Asian nation's government. Of that, $11 million will be provided in cash, while $10 million was donated in kind for the reconstruction of homes destroyed in the violence in the south of the country last month through coordination of the Turkish Cooperation and Development Agency (TİKA).
Speaking at a joint press conference following their meeting, Davutoğlu noted that Turkey had already sent nearly 63 tons of aid materials and an ambulance to the country since the beginning of the clashes in Kyrgyzstan in April.
“We will work to help our Kyrgyz and Uzbek brothers in the provinces of Osh and Jalal-Abad get back their houses as soon as possible,” Davutoğlu said, expressing Turkey's confidence that Kyrgyzstan would overcome these difficult times and regain its confidence and stability soon.
“Turkey will make all the necessary contributions to help stability be established between brother states in Central Asia,” Davutoğlu said.
Over the course of her tenure as caretaker president, which will last through to the end of 2011, Otunbayeva, 59, will oversee the implementation a newly adopted constitution. The new founding law dilutes presidential powers in favor of a European-style parliamentary system and has raised hopes that Kyrgyzstan could become former Soviet Central Asia's first true democracy.
Turkey had already expressed its pleasure at witnessing the holding of a successful referendum immediately after ethnic clashes in the southern cities of Osh and Jalal-Abad and stated that it expected Krygyzstan to retain this positive atmosphere until parliamentary elections in October.
While receiving Davutoğlu following the inauguration ceremony, Otunbayeva greeted the minister by saying “Hoşgeldiniz” (welcome) in Turkish.
“Today, you were the highest-level guest at my presidential inauguration ceremony. Turkey has once more underlined that it stands by Kyrgyzstan,” Otunbayeva told Davutoğlu during their one-and-a-half-hour long meeting, the Cihan news agency reported.
During his one-day visit to Bishkek, Davutoğlu also had talks with Deputy Prime Minister Omurbek Tekebayev and acting Foreign Minister Ruslan Kazakbayev. He met with representatives of the Meskhetian Turkish community at the Turkish Embassy and also held separate talks with executives from the Kyrgyzstan-Turkey Manas University and Turkish businessmen in the country.
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