Home/ Articles/ BNE Intellinews - Kyrgyzstan sounds alarm over teenagers’ exposure to terrorist “screen time”
March 02, 2026
BNE Intellinews - Kyrgyzstan sounds alarm over teenagers’ exposure to terrorist “screen time”
Extremist groups are using online forums to try to radicalise young people in Kyrgyzstan. There’s perhaps nothing so new about that. The difficulty is that the practice has been stepped up and they are apparently having some success.
Kyrgyzstan’s State Committee for National Security (GKNB) has warned about the growing number of teenagers accessing extremist and terrorist social network channels and websites.
The GKNB went as far as releasing a public appeal to parents to keep a watch on their children’s internet use and look for changes in their behaviour at home.
Read the full article on BNE Intellinews.
Bruce Pannier is a Senior Fellow at the Turan Research Center.