JAN. 19 2017 (The Conway Bulletin) — Azerbaijan’s president Ilham Aliyev said that he wants to buy weapons from Russia. Azerbaijan has become a major weapons buyer over the last few years. It is still officially at war with Armenia over the disputed region of Nagorno- Karabakh.
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JAN. 16 2017 (The Conway Bulletin) — Azerbaijan’s defence minister said that one of its soldiers had been killed in a skirmish with Armenia- backed forces around the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Tension has been rising around Nagorno-Karabakh. Last year several dozen soldiers were killed on both sides in the worst fighting since a 1994-brokered ceasefire ended a war in which an estimated 30,000 people died.
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JAN. 16 2017 (The Conway Bulletin) — Azerbaijan’s defence minister said that one of its soldiers had been killed in a skirmish with Armenia- backed forces around the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Tension has been rising around Nagorno-Karabakh. Last year several dozen soldiers were killed on both sides in the worst fighting since a 1994-brokered ceasefire ended a war in which an estimated 30,000 people died.
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JAN. 17 2017 (The Conway Bulletin) — Turkish police captured the main suspect, an Uzbek national called Abdulkadir Masharipov, behind a New Year’s eve attack on an Istanbul nightclub that killed 39 people. Masharipov has, reportedly, already confessed to the killings. The Turkish authorities said that he had received training from the IS radical militant group.
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JAN. 16 2017 (The Conway Bulletin) — Kazakhstan’s National Security Council dropped the threat level of a major terrorist attack from yellow. The Security Committee did not give a reason for dropping the threat from moderate. It was raised to moderate or yellow in June and extended in August. Kazakhstan had always intended to drop the threat level in January.
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JAN. 6 2017 (The Conway Bulletin) — A court in Aktobe, north-west Kazakhstan, sentenced seven men to prison for terrorism related offences. The state prosecutors said that the group had been planning a series of attacks against Russia and Russians. Central Asian governments have become increasingly wary of attacks on their territory and of Islamic radicals using the region as a prime recruiting ground.
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JAN. 9 2017 (The Conway Bulletin) — The authorities in Turkey named the suspected gunman who killed 39 people at a nightclub in Istanbul on New Years Eve as Abdulkadir Masharipov, an Uzbek national. They said that he had links with IS in Iraq and Syria and that he has been living in Turkey since 2011. The accusation once again pulls Central Asia into the spotlight over IS recruitment in the region.
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JAN. 10 2017 (The Conway Bulletin) — The suspects behind the attack on the Chinese embassy in Bishkek last year are in hiding in Istanbul, Kyrgyz media quoted Kyrgyzstan’s ambassador to Turkey as saying. A car bomb killed two people working at the embassy on Aug. 30 2016. The authorities have blamed Uighurs from China’s western Xinjiang Province. Turkey has not commented.
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JAN. 11 2017 (The Conway Bulletin) — Kazakhstan will receive an order of four Mi-35M combat helicopters from Russia in 2018, Russian Helicopters said. Kazakhstan has been looking to modernise and improve its military. It has signed various deals with Russia to boost military relations. The Mi-35M is Russia’s most sophisticated combat helicopter and is designed to attack land-based vehicles.
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JAN. 10 2017 (The Conway Bulletin) — Azerbaijan’s Azad Systems started manufacturing a version of an Israeli drone, media reported. Azerbaijan-Israel ties have improved over the past half a decade. Israel buys oil from Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan buys military equipment from Israel. Azerbaijan has spent heavily on improving its military and military-industrial base over the past few years.
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