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UN missions attend “Threads of Tradition” a Immersive interactive event about Tajikistan in New York, May 2025 Melik Kaylan Readers of this column know that Central Asia has been a particular focus in recent years. The region took on added importance with the end of the Afghan war freeing up the direction neighboring countries might take into the future. Strategically, economically and culturally it matters which way the ‘Stans go because of the effect on the rest of the world, especially on nearby powers like Russia, China and India. To that end, columns were devoted to the pan-Turkic cultural/political harmonization of countries from Turkey and Azerbaijan through Turkmenistan to Kyrgyzstan. As a trading bloc, if fully successful, they would constitute a new counter-balance to the superpowers of the neighborhood. What seldom gets mentioned in such geo-political evaluations is Tajikistan which doesn’t fit into any obvious alignments or predictable paths. This column is about that country and its prospects. First off, the Tajiks don’t align with the pan-Turkic picture because their language and predominant culture descends from the Perso-Iranian side of Silk Road history. The broader region has swung between Turco-Mongol and Persian empires back and forth across the centuries until Moscow established sway through the 1800s. Then the Soviets, as with many empires, dispensed borders according to their own arbitrary needs and so ethnic populations got caught in other republics, leaving the region prone to post-Soviet unrest. Tajikistan borders Afghanistan for close to 850 miles; not surprisingly, radical Islamist violence has been a recurrent feature. This, coming after the harsh Stalinist years and the forcible conscriptions of World War ll, means long memories of suffering have shaped the country’s psychology. But it didn’t stop there. Soon after 1991 and declaring post-Soviet independence, Tajikistan plunged into a five year civil war…

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