{"id":15075,"date":"2009-10-02T20:12:37","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T18:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=15075"},"modified":"2023-04-06T15:47:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T12:47:15","slug":"uzbek-turkmen-reps-skip-turkic-speaking-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/10\/02\/uzbek-turkmen-reps-skip-turkic-speaking-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Uzbek, Turkmen Reps Skip Turkic-Speaking Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gdb.rferl.org\/88867A0E-1BC8-48F2-9BAF-840C6057122D_mw203_s.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/>The Uzbek parliament building in Tashkent (file photo)<\/div>\n<div>October 02, 2009<\/div>\n<div>BAKU &#8212; Uzbek and Turkmen deputies did not attend the Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic-Speaking countries in Baku, RFE\/RL&#8217;s Azerbaijani and Uzbek services report.<\/p>\n<p>Azerbaijani political analyst Ilgar Mammadov told RFE\/RL that a possible reason the deputies skipped the September 22-23 session is because Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan lack &#8220;genuine parliaments&#8221; and were prohibited by their governments from attending.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the parliaments in Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan have turned into &#8220;notary&#8217;s offices&#8221; that rubberstamp bills put forth by their governments. Mammadov said that among the Turkic-speaking countries some degree of &#8220;genuine parliamentary activity&#8221; can be found only in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Uzbek political analyst Farhod Tolipov told RFE\/RL that Uzbekistan did not attend the assembly for &#8220;subjective reasons.&#8221; He explained that slogans such as &#8220;Turkestan is our home&#8221; &#8212; a reference to a pan-Turkic entity &#8212; could be frequently heard in Uzbekistan, but in recent years Central Asian countries have become more nationalistic and distanced themselves from each other.<\/p>\n<p>Initiated by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev in 2006, the Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic-Speaking Countries is designed to gather delegates from Turkey, Azerbaijan, and the five Central Asian countries. The next meeting of the assembly is to be held in Astana in 2010.<\/p><\/div>\n<div>https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/Uzbek_Turkmen_Reps_Skip_TurkicSpeaking_Assembly\/1842008.html<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Uzbek parliament building in Tashkent (file photo) October 02, 2009 BAKU &#8212; Uzbek and Turkmen deputies did not attend the Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic-Speaking countries in Baku, RFE\/RL&#8217;s Azerbaijani and Uzbek services report. Azerbaijani political analyst Ilgar Mammadov told RFE\/RL that a possible reason the deputies skipped the September 22-23 session is because Uzbekistan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":783699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1460,178,213,89,1551,764],"tags":[2224],"class_list":["post-15075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azerbaijan","category-central-asia","category-kazakhstan","category-kyrgyzstan","category-turkey","category-turkmenistan-central-asia-asiapacific-regions","category-uzbekistan","tag-turkpa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}