Alberto Turkstra is a Central Asia expert and Project Manager at the Brussels-based Diplomatic World Institute, the sister organisation of Diplomatic World magazine. Previously, he worked at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Development Cooperation as Blue Book trainee and as cooperation officer for Turkmenistan, as well as at the European Institute for Asian Studies as junior researcher and later as programme coordinator.
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