According to the claims, Gülenists interfere in Uzbekistan’s domestic policies by promising to launch a campaign against exiled Uzbeki opposition leader Muhammed Salih, living in Turkey

“The Arab spring” has destroyed two most popular demagogies of the democratic world. The first demagogy is the necessity of struggle against tyranny only by peaceful methods. The second is that democracy and Islam are incompatible.

The reason why I had to come back to this topic was a reckless, unsubstantiated, and picaresque statement about “The threat to democracy posed by People’s Movement of Uzbekistan (PMU)» made by G. Buharbaeva, a journalist from “uznews.net”.

Recent events in the Muslim world are inspiring optimism. As the Muslim world comes close to its enlightened age, its features are softened, its sight becomes clearer. The so-called ‘revolutions’ occuring — though soiled by blood and accompanied by pain – represent some kind of catharsis, some kind of cleansing. The means for these global…

In the newest history of Turks in Central Asia, which is also known by its old name Turkistan, two most important movements against colonizers took place in the end of the 19th century: an uprising under Dukchi Eshon and the Jadeedism movement, which established the Kokand Autonomy in 1917.

Muhammad Salih`s speech at “13 May Union” international conference in Brussels 27.10.2009

There is no need to repeat the truism that both the East and West possess forces that have interests in maintaining a certain level of antagonistic tension between the two sides. Some western statesmen with a Kipling mentality found Samuel Huntington’s theory about the «Clash of Civilizations» very much to their liking. Those radicals of…

(Speech at briefing — the 12th Annual Meeting of Parliament at OSCE in Rotterdam) 07.07.2003

Interview to the organization «OZOD OVOZ» (Uzbekistan)

When the Soviet Union fell apart, most of its provincial Communist dictators did not. Instead, they jumped to join those who had been, moments before, their «nationalist enemies» — and adopted nationalist slogans as their own.

Letter from Mamadali Makhmudov, written from Chirchik prison, to Mukhammad Solih Unofficial translation by Human Rights Watch