The Impact of Drugs and Drug Trafficking on the Situation in Central Asia

Drug trafficking has created many problems for the Central Asian republics and caused significanthuman and financial losses. The high profit and prosperity of this trade have caused terrorist and extremist religious groups in this region to move in this direction to consolidate their power and buy the weapons they need to use.This study aimed to investigate the effect of drug trafficking and the resulting organized crime in adescriptive-analytical manner and to obtain the required information from articles-books in this context,the main research question is: What effect can Narcotics have on the Central Asian countries? Findings from the research show that the existence of extremist religious groups which are present in most Central Asian countries has posed a threat to the economic, political, security, and social dimensions. Thus, the Central Asian republics to control and management of these problems seek to expand in the form of regional and trans-regional organizations, including the Central Asian Cooperation Organization, the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Collective Security Treaty Organization, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, as well as the ECO, to resolve tensions