THE UZBEK-TURKISH VISION OF THE SILK ROAD IN THE CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Keywords:
Turkey, Silk Road, Asia, Uzbekistan, Eurasia, Central Asia, China.Abstract
Turkey’s Silk Road Initiative, which was launched in 2008 at the "International Forum on the Role of Customs Administration in Facilitating and Promoting Trade among Silk Road Countries" in Antalya, Turkey. The Antalya forum focused on the simplification of border crossing procedures among Silk Road countries. Seventeen Silk Road countries. According to the former Turkish Minister of Customs and Trade Hayati Yazici –“…the Silk Road will become one of the most important economic routes of the global economy, transporting large amounts of goods from Central Asia to Europe and vice versa..”
The Marmara Group (http://www.marmaragrubu.org/economic-summits) debated the New Silk Road initiative of China at the 18th Eurasia Economy Summit organized in Istanbul on April 7 2015, with 44 countries participating.
Turkey is believed that the Silk Road initiatives will enable to upgrade Uzbekistan- East Asia-Turkish cooperation and bring more economic opportunities and trade links for the Turkish people, improve their living standards and boost the country’s economic growth.
Uzbekistan is the major and richest market for Turkey. Within this perspective the China, Central Asia, ASEAN and Turkey collaboration initiated the founding of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to finance the infrastructure. The bank was functional in October in 2015, and Turkey is among its founding members. It is the top of the agenda in order to revitalize the ancient Silk Road.
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