Orta Asya`da Güvenlik Sorunları

Authors : Mehmet SEYFETTİN EROL

Pages : 85-112

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Publication Date : 2004-12-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Although terrorism, which tops the world agenda  following the Sept. 11 attacks, is considered mainly Middle  East-oriented, it is no secret that it is an issue on a global scale.  What is more, this issue is the first of a number of basic  problems in Central Asian Republics in the process of a 12-  year transition after the Soviet Union was dissolved. In the  current stage, it will be useful to take up under two main titles  the security issue in the Central Asia region: One of them is  related to the `dornestic` threat perception and the other is  related to the `foreign` threat perception. One can include  common problems, shared on a regional-scale, into domestic  threat perceptions. According to this, a young and increasingly  growing population in almost all Central Asian countries and in  parallel with this unemployment, problematic political and  economic atmosphere, which is ready to create serious  conflicts, political strains, caused by authoritarian  adrninistrations and violation of human rights, ethnic  nationalism, tribalism and regionalism issues directly constitute  the basic domestic problems of every country. Water issues,  border violations, which have turned into unsolved problems  and as a result, heroin, nuclear materials, weapon smuggling  and radical Islam constitute the domestic problems, commonly  shared in the region. In the meantime, the Caspian issue, border  violations, which continue to be experienced with Russia and  China these countries` imperial approach to the Central Asia  region are leading to foreign threat perceptions of Central  Asian Republics.
Keywords : Central Asia, security issue, terrorism, Russian