因此，在未来若干年内，中亚将在很多领域面临领导权力的更替，而像土库曼那样在支撑国家政权时一直扮演重要角色的安全机构将很可能发挥重要的政治作用。
So, in the next few years, Central Asia will face leadership change on many fronts, with security apparatuses – which, as in Turkmenistan, have been crucial to buttressing these countries’ regimes – likely to be important players.