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Turkey to present roadmap to maintain Kyrgyzstan’s stability
The delegation, led by Foreign Ministry Deputy Undersecretary Hakkı Akil, will be in Kyrgyzstan from Sunday through Thursday and will have talks in Bishkek before its return, according to a statement from the Foreign Ministry on Saturday. The delegation is also expected to visit the southern cities of Osh and Jalal-Abad, where ethnic clashes and riots took place last month, killing hundreds and injuring many more.
The statement said the delegation and Kyrgyz officials will hold discussions regarding issues of bilateral cooperation. Among the agenda items, the statement said there will also be an “action plan” drafted by Turkey to bolster the ethnically split former Soviet republic’s efforts to maintain stability during its fragile period of transition. Further information on the content of the plan was not available.
During a visit by Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu to Kazakhstan in June, he said Turkey and Kazakhstan had agreed on a joint action plan to be implemented following a referendum on June 27. “This agreement came following talks on what could be done for Kyrgyzstan in the areas of domestic politics, diplomacy, economy and security,” Davutoğlu said at the time.
Kyrgyzstan has experienced two major episodes of civil strife this year, in both the capital and in southern cities. Current Kyrgyz President Rosa Otunbayeva led anti-government riots that raged in the capital for a week and which eventually resulted in the demise of former Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev’s Western-backed government on April 7.
The interim government that came to power after the riots called for a constitutional referendum on June 27. Just days before the referendum, fierce ethnic clashes rocked the country’s south.
Otunbayeva said in late June that 2,000 people may have died in the ethnic clashes. The deaths were caused by rampaging mobs led mainly by ethnic Kyrgyz against Uzbeks. Some claim there are also dozens of ethnic Kyrgyz among the dead. An estimated 400,000 people -- nearly one-twelfth of the population -- have fled their homes to escape Kyrgyzstan’s ethnic violence.
Kazakhstan and Turkey are chairing Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA), respectively.
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