Hardly a month goes by without some sort of unrest in Central Asia since Turkey and Azerbaijan formally marked the completion of the Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP) in November 2019 that will bring natural gas from the Caspian Sea to Western Europe bypassing Russia.
Eurasianet.org reported that based on the news report by Tajik Prague-based Akhbor website “a crowd of Chinese nationals working at a metals plant in the north of the country staged an impromptu demonstration on May 20 in a demand to be allowed to travel home. Riot police dispatched to the scene, in the town of Taboshar, about 90 kilometers from the city of Khujand, dispersed the crowd of around 100 people by firing gunshots into the air.”
In February 2020, Crescent International had concluded that due to the recently completed Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP) Central Asia will witness far greater acts of instability in the coming months and years.
Since then Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan have all witnessed spikes in political tensions.
Courtesy: Eurasianet.org
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