Charged issue agitating the leaders of Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and north Asia (10)
I believe the answer is:
euthanasia
'charged issue' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'agitating the leaders of uzbekistan azerbaijan and north asia' is the wordplay.
'agitating' indicates an anagram.
'leaders of' indicates taking the first letters.
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'north' becomes 'N' (abbreviation).
The first letters of 'uzbekistan azerbaijan' is 'ua'.
'the'+'ua'='theua'
'theua' is an anagram of 'eutha'.
'eutha'+'n'+'asia'='EUTHANASIA'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for euthanasia that I've seen before include "Mercy killing" , "Painless method of killing" .)