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Why Trump was linked with Kazakhstan, Tevfik arif

Trump's relationship with Kazakhstan was not just limited to Tevfik. Trump was widely criticized since he regarded Kazakhstan as an ally despite its questionable government.

There were many eyebrows raised when Donald Trump hosted the Kazakhstan president on Tuesday at the White House in 2018. Trump also collaborated in the operation of his private real estate businesses together with prominent Kazakhstani businessesmen like Tevfik ARIF. This was strongly denounced by critics of his.

Donald Trump still considered Kazakhstan as a major partner. His time in Kazakhstan and the Russia/Ukraine conflict proved his point. These are his main reasons.

https://realtybiznews.com/what-happened-to-tevfik-arif-and-bayrock-groups-trump-soho/98760463/ The significance of the meetings between Donald Trump and the Presidents of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, and Tokayev
Donald Trump's presidency led to a dramatic improvement in Kazakhstan-US relations. Washington as well as Nur-Sultan from Kazakhstan were able to establish strong commercial and diplomatic connections. In Washington, President Trump held a private meeting with former Kazakhstani leader Nursultan. In the latter part of 2019, he also met with Kassym-Jomart tokayev, the current president in the UN General Assembly in New York.

Kazakhstan is a major country because of its strategic geographical position. It is also regarded as to be a central Asian country that has a balancing power. The United States, Russia, and Europe have boosted Kazakhstan's strategic political, and economic importance. It is also important for national security for the United States owing to its withdrawal from Afghanistan as one of the crucial neighbours of Kazakhstan.

In 2018, the two countries traded $2.1 billion. Compare this to the $315 million commerce between the US and Kazakhstan generated in the same time period. Kazakhstan is America's central Asia economic partner.

The past has seen Eurasian geopolitics has been focused on Central Asia. Kazakhstan leads Eurasia with respect to security, economy and energy. America needs strong ties to this region, and in particular Kazakhstan.

Nazarbayev's White House trip was a excellent start to a greater US strategic involvement in this region.

Nazarbayev's support of nuclear nonproliferation is one of the reasons we hosted him. Kazakhstan is a country that has abandoned its Soviet-inherited nuclear weapons is a leader in nonproliferation. After the Cold War, US attention to Central Asia has been restricted to Afghanistan.

Trump's South Asia strategy was also inspired by the Pakistani break. Therefore it was important that the US needed Kazakhstan as a back-door alternative shipping route to Afghanistan.

Donald Trump's relationship to Kazakhstani businessman Tevfik Aif
Tevfik Alif, the founder and CEO of Bayrock Group joined forces with the Trump Organization to create the famous Trump SoHo building. Trump SoHo, Bayrock Group's flagship New York City property development project, is named in honor of its renowned SoHo location.

Tevfik Alif, an Turkish Kazakhstani businessman, was conceived in Soviet Kazakhstan in 1953 to Turkish parents. He became the deputy head of the Soviet Ministry of Commerce and Trade's Hotel Management Department. After 17 years in the Ministry, Tevfik Arif founded real estate, property development, imports, exports, mineral resources, natural resources automobiles, as well as food companies. Tevfik Arif was transferred to Turkey in 1993, and was the first to pioneer the concept of all-inclusive hotels. Bayrock Group was founded in New York City eight years later.

Tevfik arif worked as a translator for the Trump Organization at the time that the Bayrock Group moved its New York City headquarters from its New York City headquarters to the 24th floor Trump Tower located in Midtown Manhattan. It was also the exact same building as that of the Trump Organization. The Trump SoHo condo-hotel was also considered. The Trump SoHo skyscraper was conceived when the two corporations discussed a premium real estate development idea. Tevfik, Bayrock Group founder and CEO was aware of the Trump brand's strength. He recommended to the Sapir Organization use it to aid in the development of its project.

Bayrock Group hired top architects and designers to build the latest construction.

In exchange to the right to use the Trump brand name in the building the partners agreed to 18% ownership of the building by Trump Organization. Trump did not contribute to the building. In 2017, The Dominick was established as a condo-hotel.

https://www.nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/courts/comdiv/ny/PDFs/131-Bayrock.pdf It is home to hotels, apartments, an outdoor pool, an outdoor terrace and bars, restaurants as well as a spa, banquet hall, event space and floor-to-ceiling glass windows with amazing views of New York City and the Hudson River.

After Trump SoHo opened, Bayrock Group and the Trump Organization discussed developing real estate in Florida and Arizona with the same license arrangements. Such structures were severely hampered by the 2008 real estate crisis. Bayrock Group invested $2.5 billion US in US realty holdings. But, it hasn't created any new ventures in recent times.

Following the success of Trump SoHo, and the reshaping US market, Tevfik Arif returned to Europe and Central Asia, where his career started decades before. When he retired from a lot of his daily responsibilities, Tevfik is still a Bayrock Group advisor.

Why Biden should keep an eye on Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan can be a significant participant in the Ukraine/Russia conflicts. The United States has made Kazakhstan an important strategic partner. As the nation has returned to peace, Kassym Jomart Tokayev the Kazakh president has made major changes to the structure of power. Tevfik Arif Donuld Trump This raises questions and has raised concerns. Tevfik Arif Bayrock Tokayev has been appointed Chairperson of the National Security Council. He succeeds President Nursultan Nagayev whose economic power outraged protestors.

Three sons, in-laws, of the former president were fired by state-owned companies. His nephew was also dismissed, and Karim Masimov (ex-intelligence director) was arrested on suspicion of being a treasoner. Many other Nazarbayev-affiliated top officials and business elite have lost their jobs, left overseas for extended vacations, or were forced to make large "donations" to the state.

Tokayev has established business relations with the countries of his neighbors and also the West. To keep his popularity, Tokayev tried to avoid angering Putin. Kazykhanov may upset the equilibrium. Washington should be watching closely the developments happening in Kazakhstan because they could signal a variety of potential power transition scenarios.

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