#mirziyoyev

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Usbekistans Wirtschaft im Wandel: Impulse durch Präsident Mirziyoyev

Seit Shavkat Mirziyoyev 2016 die Präsidentschaft übernommen hat, erlebt Usbekistan eine beeindruckende Entwicklung. Innovative Investitionspolitik: Motor für Wachstum Seit Shavkat Mirziyoyev 2016 die Präsidentschaft übernommen hat, erlebt Usbekistan eine beeindruckende Entwicklung. Die Regierung setzt auf innovative Investitionspolitik, um ausländische Investoren zu gewinnen. Rahmenbedingungen…

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Shavkat Mirziyoyev

[older-is-better]

Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

[jloisse]

Le président russe Vladimir Poutine, ainsi que ses homologues ouzbek, Shavkat Mirzioïev, et Kazakh, Kassym-Jomart Tokaïev, ont donné le coup d'envoi des livraisons de gaz russe à l'Ouzbékistan via le Kazakhstan.

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Elezioni Uzbekistan Mirziyoyev stravince con l'87% dei voti

Riconfermato per la terza volta Shavkat Mirziyoyev, il successore di Ismael Karimov. Ora il suo mandato potrebbe durare fino al 2037. Si era espresso contro i lavori forzati nei campi di cotone e la violenza domestica, ora promette di essere difensore dei diritti umani

[tea-party-at-wonderland]

Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov, President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon and President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev toured part of the permanent exhibition on display at the Mikhailovsky Palace.

The leaders visited the halls exhibiting art of the early 19th century by Karl Bryullov, Ivan Aivazovsky and Fyodor Bruni, among other works. Director of the Russian Museum Vladimir Gusev conducted the tour.

Founded in 1898, the Russian Museum is the world’s largest museum of Russian art. Its collection of more than 400,000 masterpieces spans more than 1,000 years, from the 10th to the 21st century. The museum’s architectural complex in historical St Petersburg consists of the Mikhailovsky Garden, the Summer Garden with Peter the Great’s Summer Palace, Peter the Great’s House and the Mikhailovsky Palace.

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[itstokkii]

Turkuzbek hcs because I don't give them enough love!!!!

Age: I was talking to a couple of friends about this! @peonycats believes turkey to be born around the years 900-1000 CE. meanwhile, uzbekistan would be born around the late 1200s, meaning that turkey's older than uzb by 300 years... 😔 rip my sexy milf uzb hcs...

History: they go wayy back. the Timurid Empire actually had a battle with the Ottoman Empire, largely out of the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I's concern that the Timurids were expanding too far west. while the Ottomans were heading to the east, Timur's forces cut from behind and sieged Ankara, which started the Battle of Ankara(1402). the Timurid Empire won, also holding the title to being the only ones to capture an Ottoman Sultan in person in all of the Ottoman Empire's history. Not only that, but the Timurid Empire kinda caused a civil war in the Ottoman Empire due to the Sultan dying in captivity, causing all his sons to fight about who the legitimate heir was.

Nothing says teenage romance like causing a civil war in someone's empire and starting a record that was never broken for all 700 years of its history ❤️

(it's also said that allegedly the sultan was kept in a gold cage...)

turkey jokes about her bloodthirsty era, to which she tries smashing her face into his neck and slapping his shoulders "stop!!! I was 17 back then ok 😭😭" but will also say "ok but we caused a civil war at your place so"

after the Timurid Empire collapsed, the Ottomans and Uzbeks got along better. the Khwarazm and Bukhara khanates asked turkey to help them with the threat of russian expansion. and the Ottomans and uzbeks worked together to launch offensives against Iran in the late 1500s to early 1600s.

unfortunately i don't really have much for turkuzbek during the rule of imperial russia and the ussr as they barely interacted, and though turkey was the first nation to recognize uzbekistan's independence, relations soured during the first president's administration due to um. Driving turkish companies out because they had prayer mats in their offices 💀💀

BUT after the first president karimov died, the vice president mirziyoyev began to issue reforms and lifted bans on religious activity, causing a revival of islam in uzbekistan. turkey was all for it, so they began to get closer than ever. That's where they currently are in terms of relationships!

hcs:

THEY ARE LOSER HUSBAND X PRETTY WIFE THEY REALLY AREEE

you know when you have that trusted, dependable friend and one night at a sleepover they wanna tell you something and they confess to having a crush on the WORST person for them but they're head over heels in love? yeah that's uzbekistan 😔

she may be younger but if you didn't know it, you'd assume she's the older one based on maturity.

when they do get together, kazakhstan and kyrgyzstan are both...shocked. kazakhstan just thinks turkey's ego is massively inflated and that russia wouldn't appreciate their relationship getting closer, limiting russian economic support, whereas kyrgyzstan looks like one of those stick figures violence reaction images and kazakhstan has to hold him back

he's definitely the type of guy to slam his hand against the wall and corner her just to see her facial expression

he also calls her "Nargiz," a nickname of her name "Nargiza" which also alters her brain chemistry

though, i want to think that uzbekistan does try to make her move...just in private. idk how she'd do that use your imagination i guess?

even when they're in an established relationship, she's mostly affectionate in private. the most turkey's gonna get out of her in public is....h*nd h*lding or arm clutching but even then...she won't do that until they're married(turkuzbek wedding when???)

uzbekistan reading or scrolling through her phone after a long day of work and turkeys like "nargiz...pay attention to me......come on let's make tea......"

They give each other shoulder massages occasionally

when turkey catches uzbekistan reading he joins her

🇹🇷: hey stop turning the pages so quickly

🇺🇿: i can't stay on this page forever

one second he's talking about how manly of a man he is, next second he asks uzbekistan to cuddle him

they both love cats! and they occasionally have friendly fights about who's more hospitable

turkey and uzbekistan also argue about who did it wrong(uzbek osh vs turkish pilaf, and turkey gets upset at uzbekistan's pahlava because "it's a cheap ripoff")

i was reading about strengthening turkey uzbekistan relations and the article said something like "together, the uzbek and turkish presidents band together as hanafi against the wahabi-salafism sect" so imagining this whole convo:

🇸🇦 circa 2018: congratulations on getting your religious freedom back, uzbekistan! what is your next step moving forward?

🇺🇿: well actually i-

🇹🇷: she's with me lol

turkey has a weird obsession with mongolia and the casians' nomadic pasts

🇹🇷: HELLO MY TURKIC MONGOLIC NOMADIC ISLAMIC MARE MILK DRINKING HORSE RIDING STEPPE BROTHERS AND SISTERS

🇺🇿: im sorry sir this is a choyxona(tea house/restaurant)

though turkey is a fellow islamic nation and they do belong to the same sect as uzbeks do, uzbekistan is still a little stricter. lots of turkish dramas had scenes cut from the uzbek premiere, and some dramas were just...not broadcasted due to...spicy scenes(making out i guess??)

🇹🇷: awww, come on they cut out my favorite scene

🇺🇿: your what 😃🔪

they also get along because they have similar tastes in tea! might as well call them tea lovers

turkey prefers his tea with sugar, whereas uzbekistan just drinks it without.

russia looked down on her and the rest of the central asians because "they were in their ignorant peasant barbarian era before I came and changed everything for the better!!!!"

she also had to unhealthily bottle her feelings of nervousness, anxiety, and overwhelming anger as russia kept taking and taking from uzbekistan(things like cotton, and forcing the aral sea into irrigation, causing the 4th largest freshwater lake in the world to dry up), giving little back or nothing at all to uzbekistan

so one of my earliest turkuzbek hcs was that turkey helps her recover from nightmares by the ussr despite her not telling him what happened, and trying to get her to calm down with tea and desserts and that's when she realized she liked him so much.

saudi arabia initially didn't believe someone as "sensible and mature" as uzbekistan would get with turkey, until she herself confirmed it to him 😔 he mourns the loss of another normal person...

🇸🇦: Dear Diary, today we lost the land of Al Tirmidhi...Al Bukhari...our last bastion...to Turkey...now my allies are no more...

turkuzbek use scent as comfort. when one has to go back home after a meeting or event, the other spends the night hugging the pillow they slept with, or wearing a jacket or other article of clothing they left behind.

they steal each other's clothes for this reason!

back in like...2020 a turkish director partnered with the Uzbek Ministry of Culture and Sports to make the Mendirman Jaloliddin drama based on the last ruler of the Khwarazmian Empire before it fell to the Mongols. so anyways they're hyping up their country's actors before they go on set, and meanwhile all actors from both countries see how turkuzbek are and ship it as well lolol

and lastly: just because I'm also korean...soojin is their wingman lolol

This is all my brain could record, so if anyone has anything to add, please do not hesitate and add your hcs!

[ask-hws-uzbekistan]

What is your relationship with turkey like? :]

You're doing this on purpose, aren't you?? I...I gotta go I hear someone calling me!

She only ran about a few steps before passing out on the floor. Sometimes I wonder what she sees in that guy...

Anyway, I'll be taking over for her in case you wanted the real answer.

She had tried to fight Iran once before with Turkey and Crimea back in 1578, but had to retreat for a while to take care of matters at home. Said matters being my brother and I rebelling against her rule on us. She did end up taking large areas of land from Iran, so I guess that's a win?

And then she did it again in 1616. She asked Turkey about a cooperative military offensive against Iran, to which he accepted and attacked Iran again. I kinda feel bad for Iran...that must have been annoying at best.

She used to talk to him and visit him quite often around the 1500s and 1600s. She also asked him for help in the face of Russian expansion around the 1700s and 1800s. However, we all know what happened...

One of his military generals, Enver Pasha, tried helping us in the Basmachi Revolt against the Bolsheviks, but unfortunately died in battle in 1918. His remains stayed in Tajikistan until the late 90s, where he was brought back to Turkey.

Initially Turkey did have good relations with the USSR due to the shared ideas of revolution and the overthrowing of the monarchy, but things got cold after Turkey joined NATO.

They never really talked to each other after that...

Until we all became independent. Turkey was the first nation to recognize all of our independences, and things were going well. Until Turkey took Muhammad Solih, the Uzbek President's opposition candidate, in to stay. Uzbekistan asked for him back, but in Karimov's tenure that meant bad news...and so Turkey refused. This started the deterioration of their relationship(all of us too, if I'm being honest–she was very cold and brash during this time and just did whatever she could to achieve her goals). She had also raided a lot of his office buildings and jailed his employees on accounts of "terrorism" for having prayer mats and religious books in the offices.

After Karimov died in 2016, a new era was ushered in as Vice President Mirziyoyev took office as President in 2017. He began to thaw relationships with the rest of us, including Turkey. My sister also finally joined the Organization of Turkic States as a full member in 2019! They started talking to each other like normal again, and they even worked on a drama together about the last prince of the Khwarazmian Empire, starring a Turkish and Uzbek actor and actress as the main characters who fall in love.

Hmm. I wonder if that reminds me of something...

Turkey's politicians constantly highlight how important Uzbekistan is as a gateway to other Central Asian countries(me totally me), and she's starting to move away from trading with Russia in favor of Turkey. He also gives her a lot of military weapons, like drones, and they've begun training together recently.

So to sum it up, I think they both benefit each other a lot economically, and Turkey's also very similar culturally with the rest of us.

Wait why do I see Kyrgyzstan with a suitcase looking angry?

Oh no I better stop him. Thanks for having me, the cooler brother- OH GOD

[zvaigzdelasas]

19 May 23

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from National Geographic:

These days, the village of Karauzyak in western Uzbekistan is a dusty place. Surrounded by an arid landscape of dry scrub grasses and salt-crusted soils, it’s hard to believe the village was once along the banks of a swollen river, 30 miles from the shore of the world’s fourth-largest lake. Over the last 50 years, that lake, the Aral Sea, has dried up almost entirely, in what is often called the “world’s worst environmental disaster.” Now, it’s hard to farm much of anything in Karauzyak—except for atriplex, or saltbush. 

In a 3.5-hectare plot of land near the village, a team of Japanese researchers is growing this salt-loving plant, known scientifically as a halophyte, to see if it can be a viable crop for farmers in the region and even nurture a small dairy industry. They’ve fed it to cows at a nearby farm and found that it helps lock scarce moisture into the thirsty soil, and it can be grown without extensive fertilizer use.

As she holds up a dusty green twig of atriplex, Kristina Toderich, a halophyte expert from Tottori University in Japan, explains why the salt-loving plant excites scientists like her: “This doesn’t need water. It doesn’t need anything.”

Toderich is one of the lead researchers on a project using the former seabed and nearby river delta as a living laboratory. It’s part of a larger Japanese foreign aid and scientific collaboration initiative called SATREPS. Working with Uzbekistan’s hydrometeorological service, UZGIP, the researchers are collecting real-time climate data and satellite imagery to better understand the conditions in the Aral Sea area: how much water is left, how fast it’s disappearing, and what kind of crops are being farmed there.

Based on the results, they’re drafting a model for sustainable agriculture in the region, recommending that farmers adopt new irrigation methods and plant crops that are more salt- and drought-tolerant, says Kenji Tanaka, a hydrologist who studies the effects of climate change on water resources and the head of the SATREPS project.

The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification has warned that an area of land the size of Central Asia has become degraded from drought, salinization, and overuse since 2015. By learning what can grow in the Aral Sea, SATREPS could provide solutions for other parts of the world that are facing similar problems, from the Lake Chad basin in Western Africa to the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

It's unclear whether the Uzbeki government will adopt the recommendations made by the SATREPS team. But so far, the country seems open to change; President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who promised to loosen the rigid Soviet-era policies of his predecessor, Islam Karimov, ended the requirement that all Uzbek citizens pick cotton if called upon, and has spoken at the United Nations about the effects of desertification and land degradation on his country.

Climate change makes these adaptations even more urgent. Average temperatures in the Aral basin have increased by around 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit since 1968. And the shrinking of the Aral Sea itself has affected the climate; as the water disappeared, the air became drier and lost the cooling effect of the nearby lake, creating a feedback loop that resulted in hotter and drier weather. Sandstorms now spread dust and toxic heavy metals to nearby villages, while retreating water has caused a build-up of salts in the soil.

Tanaka’s project has several components. Aside from atriplex, SATREPS researchers are planting crops like sorghum, mung bean, and amaranth in test plots to learn which can best survive in dry, saline soil. So far, they’ve developed promising varieties of winter wheat and barley.

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The bri is a great opportunity for all countries that joins it and only a political class as obtuse and sinophobic as the western one would refuse such opportunity

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😘 人类命运共同体 | COOPERAZIONE E FUTURO CONDIVISO TRA CINA E UZBEKISTAN 🥰

🇨🇳 Ieri, 08/10, il Compagno Li Qiang - Primo Ministro della Repubblica Popolare Cinese, ha incontrato, ad Hangzhou, Abdulla Aripov - Primo Ministro della Repubblica dell'Uzbekistan 🇺🇿

⭐️ A maggio, il Presidente Xi Jinping e il Presidente Shavkat Mirziyoyev hanno concordato di costruire insieme una Comunità dal Futuro Condiviso (人类命运共同体) Sino-Uzbeka, atta a rafforzare ulteriormente le Relazioni Bilaterali 💕

❤️ 人类命运共同体 mostra che l'Umanità (人类, rénlèi) ha un Destino Comune (命运共同, mìngyùn gòngtóng) ❤️

🇨🇳 La Cina, ha dichiarato Li Qiang, è pronta a collaborare con l'Uzbekistan per espandere la Cooperazione a Mutuo Vantaggio (合作共赢), migliorare la connettività tra i due Paesi e promuovere la costruzione congiunta della Nuova Via della Seta 🤝

🇺🇿 Il PM Aripov si è congratulato con la Cina per gli splendidi Giochi Asiatici di Hangzhou, ha ricordato che l'Uzbekistan rispetta il Principio dell'Unica Cina e sostiene con fermezza la Nuova Via della Seta 💕

💬 La Cooperazione Sino-Uzbeka, hanno affermato entrambi i premier, non tocca semplicemente le Relazioni Stato-Stato, ma anche quelle Regionali, atte a costruire un Futuro Condiviso tra la Cina e i Paesi dell'Asia Centrale 💕

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🇨🇳 中国与中亚五国｜乌兹别克斯坦：好朋友 好伙伴 好榜样 好兄弟 ❤️

😍 Costruire una Comunità dal Futuro Condiviso tra Cina e Paesi dell'Asia Centrale 💕

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😘 人类命运共同体 | COOPERATION AND SHARED FUTURE BETWEEN CHINA AND UZBEKISTAN 🥰

🇨🇳 Yesterday, 08/10, Comrade Li Qiang - Prime Minister of the People's Republic of China, met in Hangzhou with Abdulla Aripov - Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan 🇺🇿

⭐️ In May, President Xi Jinping and President Shavkat Mirziyoyev agreed to jointly build a Sino-Uzbek Community of Shared Future (人类命运共同体), aimed at further strengthening bilateral relations 💕

❤️ 人类命运共同体 shows that Humanity (人类, rénlèi) has a Common Destiny (命运共同, mìngyùn gòngtóng) ❤️

🇨🇳 China, declared Li Qiang, is ready to collaborate with Uzbekistan to expand Mutual Benefit Cooperation (合作共赢), improve connectivity between the two countries and promote the joint construction of the New Silk Road 🤝

🇺🇿 PM Aripov congratulated China on the splendid Asian Games in Hangzhou, recalled that Uzbekistan respects the One China Principle and firmly supports the New Silk Road 💕

💬 The Sino-Uzbek Cooperation, both prime ministers stated, does not simply affect State-State Relations, but also Regional Relations, aimed at building a Shared Future between China and the Central Asian countries 💕

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😍 Building a Community with a Shared Future between China and Central Asian Countries 💕

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Through the Years → Felipe VI of Spain (2,059/∞) 9 June 2017 | Spanish King Felipe VI meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping and President of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, before attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Heads of State Council, in Astana, Kazakhstan. (Xinhua/Uzbekistan Presidency/Anadolu Agency/Li Tao via Getty Images)

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This summer, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev announced plans for a referendum to amend the country’s constitution. Following the lead of Kazakhstani President Tokayev, Mirziyoyev claimed the changes would be a step towards greater democracy, but the main question among observers was whether he would use the initiative to reset his presidential term count. However, when a draft version of the amendments was published in late July, it included an even more drastic change: the proposed legislation would strip the country’s autonomous republic of Karakalpakstan of its status as a sovereign republic and of its right to secede from Uzbekistan via referendum. Karakalpakstan makes up more than a third of Uzbekistan’s territory, and secession rights were a key part of the 1993 reunification agreement signed by Uzbekistan and Karakalpakstan in the wake of the Soviet collapse. Mirziyoyev’s proposal sparked large-scale demonstrations in the republic, and the authorities responded with violent force and severe criminal charges against protesters. After their sentences were handed down on January 31, the independent outlet Mediazona Central Asia spoke to multiple experts about Tashkent’s handling of the situation and what it means for the country’s future. Meduza is publishing an abridged translation of Mediazona’s report.

The joint legacy of Stalin and Karimov

In late June 2022, the Uzbek government published draft constitutional amendments that would deprive the Republic of Karakalpakstan of its right to secede from Uzbekistan via referendum. In the days that followed, widespread protests broke out in the republic’s capital of Nukus and in other cities throughout the region as residents demanded the amendments be withdrawn. Within days, the demonstrations grew into violent clashes as law enforcement used lethal force to disperse the protesters.

According to official sources, Uzbek law enforcement officers arrested more than 500 demonstrators, including Nukus lawyer and journalist Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov and journalist Lolagul Kallykhanova, whom prosecutors accused of organizing the protests.

On July 2, the second day of the demonstrations, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev flew to Nukuz, where he announced that the Karakalpakstan-related initiatives would be removed from the amendments package. Meanwhile, the authorities declared a state of emergency in the republic that remained in effect until July 21.

By official counts, 21 people (including four security officials) were killed in the unrest, and at least 200 protesters were injured. But according to opposition politician Aman Sagidullayev, the true number of victims is much higher. He told Mediazona that he estimates at least 300 people may have been killed and more than 1,000 injured.

The investigation that followed the clashes lasted nearly five months and resulted in criminal charges against 22 people. Each of the defendants was charged with multiple crimes, including conspiracy to seize power and the organization of mass riots.

The trial against the protesters began on November 28. Instead of Nukus, where the alleged crimes took place, the authorities opted to hold the proceedings hundreds of miles away, in Bukhara, claiming this was necessary due to renovations in the Nukus court building.

But Alisher Ilkhamov, director of the London-based think tank Central Asia Due Diligence, told Mediazona that he believes the court proceedings were moved to limit the number of relatives and friends of the defendants who could attend the hearings. Those people’s very presence in the court would have created an “atmosphere of pressure,” said Ilkhamov.

“I want to note that the proceedings were moved not to Uzbekistan’s Khorezm region, which neighbors Karakalpakstan, but to Bukhara. And many of the defendants’ relatives simply can’t afford the trip,” he said.

Ilkhmanov said he even knows of cases in which familiar members of the people on trial sold livestock in order to attend the hearings. And in addition to being far away, he said, the authorities chose a facility that was far too small to accommodate everyone who wanted to be there.

“Bukhara isn’t a very big city, and the influx of people planning to be in the court caused a shortage of hotels and a sharp price increase. All of these factors made it even more difficult for Karakalpakstan residents to attend the hearings,” he said.

As for the charges themselves, Ilkhamov has no doubt that they’re politically motivated. “The proceedings resemble Stalin’s show trials, which were both illegitimate in a legal sense and also made public to intimidate society, to give an example of how the authorities are able to deal with real or imagined opponents. And these politically motivated trials, which have nothing to do with the rule of law, were widespread in Uzbekistan under the regime of Islam Karimov,” he said.

Aman Sagidullayev, the Norway-based leader of the Alga Karakalpakstan movement, described the trial in Bukhara as a “kangaroo court.” He told Mediazona that there are effectively no independent lawyers to be found in Uzbekistan and especially in Karakalpakstan.

“[As a result,] trials resemble games in which people play at transparency and democracy. But we know that from the moment the activists were arrested, their rights have constantly been violated; we’ve observed torture and illegal searches. For example, from the first day of his arrest, Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov asked for an investigator who speaks Karakalpak, as well as glasses so he can read the court documents, but nobody wanted to listen to his requests,” said Sagidullayev.

Halfway measures

Most of the proceedings were broadcast via livestream on the court’s site, a rarity for Uzbekistan. Alisher Ilkhamov admits that this alone is a step in the direction of transparency, but at the same time, he notes, at a certain point the broadcast was cut off and the press barred from the courtroom:

It happened when certain interesting details that discredited the authorities were revealed. For example, Tazhimuratov spoke about how, while he was reading the materials compiled by investigators, he stumbled upon information about injured protesters: someone had a bullet in their chest, someone had grenade fragments in their head. That means that, in addition to using riot control weapons to disperse demonstrations, law enforcement used firearms, which explains why the number of victims is so high. According to official data, 21 people were killed. But the medical personnel who dealt with the bodies and the injuries during the Nukus events claimed that 77 bodies were delivered to the hospital. So, the Uzbek authorities didn’t succeed in fully showing the openness of the process, and they were forced to curtail this initiative.

Most of the defendants, however, showed no such willingness to criticize the authorities. On the contrary, they repented their alleged crimes, asked the president and the Uzbek people for forgiveness using phrases that were strikingly similar to one another, and condemned Tazhimuratov, who they claimed had misled them and forced them to join the protests and throw Molotov cocktails.

Tazhimuratov himself asked the court to let him speak “at the very end, after everybody else,” saying he hadn’t expected the other defendants to betray him and “slander” him. In his final statement on January 20, he started by noting that all of his co-defendants had unanimously praised the prison food, their detainment conditions, and the way they had been treated by prison guards, which he described as “suspicious.”

Aman Sagidullayev said that it’s indeed likely that investigators and lawyers promised the other defendants lighter sentences in exchange for giving the “necessary testimonies.” In his experience, he said, many of the lawyers assigned to cases like Tazhimuratov’s are former law enforcement officials, and their primary role is to serve as an “intermediary between the prosecutor and the judge.”

“I know that one of the defendants, Azamat Turdanov, was subjected to torture and pleaded guilty after they broke the leg of his younger brother, who was in prison,” he told Mediazona. “[In this case,] the Uzbek authorities’ target was Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov, so they took measures to ensure that people would slander him.”

Prosecutors, unsurprisingly, requested prison sentences for all of the defendants. The harshest sentences were requested for Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov and Lolagul Kallykhanova: 18 and 11 years in prison, respectively.

Tazhimuratov pleaded not guilty to most of the charges against him, including the claim that he incited mass riots. At the same time, while he maintained that he “wasn’t trying to achieve independence,” he also insisted that nobody can ban him from yearning for it. “Dreaming about independence isn’t a crime. I’ll continue to dream; I’ll dream until I’m in the grave. […] Release me now, and I won’t take a step towards independence, but my dream won’t fade,” he vowed.

In his closing statement, Tazhimuratov also addressed the violence and abuse he endured at the hands of law enforcement. On July 1, he said, he was taken in for a “preventative conversation” that ended in a beating. “A preventative conversation in the new Uzbekistan is where they put a mask and handcuffs on you and put you in a police van, jab you and jab you with a stun gun, beat you, make you spit up blood, and then release you,” he said.

The following day, he said, security officials showed up at his home — without warrants. “They broke the doors, the gates, the windows, and entered the building. They took several people away to the police station. […] There, they put us in an isolation unit. They put us right into prison without any warrants or court orders,” he said.

Aman Sagidullayev doesn’t believe any law enforcement officials will be punished for using violence against civilians during the protests or their aftermath. “The investigation against the Uzbek military for using force during the Nukus events looks like a farce,” he said. “We still don’t know who fired, what weapons were used, or who gave the command. They don’t even seem to have arrested anybody.”

No surprise

On January 31, the court found Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov guilty of conspiracy to seize power, embezzlement, money laundering, organizing mass unrest, and disseminating materials that threaten public safety. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison — two years fewer than prosecutors had requested.

Most of the other defendants were given sentences of between three and five years in prison. Lolagul Kallykhanova received an eight-year parole-like sentence, while three others were given probation and immediately released from custody.

Alisher Ulkhamov sees these sentences as an attempt by the Uzbek authorities to minimize the damage to their own reputation after a trial that was clearly political in nature. “At first glance, the outcome looks like a compromise; after all, four people, including the only woman on the list of defendants, Kallykhanova, were given probation. But in reality, there was no compromise — the informal leader of the Karakalpaks, Tazhimuratov, was given only two years fewer than what prosecutors requested,” he said.

But at the same time, he said, he expects the ruling to cement Tazhimuratov’s status as a hero throughout the region.

“In his closing statement, [Tazhimuratov] ripped the prosecutors to shreds, pointing out the contradictions [in their claims] and their bias. Judging by his dignified behavior after his sentencing, I suspect he may now become a martyr in the eyes of the people of Karakalpakstan,” he said.

Ilkhmanov compared the situation in Karakalpakstan to a “time bomb” and said he doesn’t expect the authorities’ retribution against the protesters to defuse it:

It’s quite possible that the situation will develop along the same path as Kosovo, where things also began with some minor demonstrations and unjust legal rulings, but they ended with the region’s exit from Serbia. That scenario is highly likely in Karakalpakstan. At the same time, against the backdrop of this political crisis and the recent energy collapse, the government is rapidly losing authority, which could intensify its repressions. Which is why, right now, the odds of the country returning to the old Karimov order have grown significantly.

Aman Sagidullayev, the leader of the Alga Karakalpakstan movement, says that he wouldn’t have expected any other decision from the court. “I knew that the sentence would be harsh because the Uzbek president backs this show trial. Bearing in mind that human rights advocate [and Karakalpak independence advocate Zhumasapar] Dadebayev, who was kidnapped in Turkey and taken to Tashkent, was sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2022, I expected this kind of punishment for Tazhimuratov too,” he said.

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İzleyin ve izletin; Azerbaycan Cumhurbaşkanı İlham Aliyev, Kazakistan Cumhurbaşkanı Kasım Cömert Tokayev, Kırgızistan Cumhurbaşkanı Sadır Caparov, Özbekistan Cumhurbaşkanı Şevket Mirziyoyev, Türkmenistan Halk Maslahatı Başkanı Gurbanguli Berdimuhamedov, KKTC Cumhurbaşkanı Ersin Tatar, ve Macaristan Başbakanı Viktor Orban Türkiye ve Recep Tayyip Erdoğan için neler söylüyorlar.

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