Formality or Reality of the Future “The New Era of Turkic Civilization: Toward Shared Progress and Prosperity

The Organization of Turkic States has undergone a major transformation from the 1992 summit of heads of Turkic language states under the Turkish presidency in Ankara and the 2009 summit in Nakhichevan, where an agreement was signed to create the Cooperation Council of Turkic Language States (Turkic Council), to the November 2021 summit in Turkey, where the leaders of the participating countries decided to rename the Turkic Council into the Organization of Turkic States. The ninth summit of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS), which was held on November 11, 2022, in Samarkand, only continued this transformation of the OTS.

The main question is to understand whether the OTS has the prospect to grow into the likeness of the European Union and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) with the natural growth of new members and observers or whether it is just another formal organization, which will remain only a platform for the discussion of pressing international issues?

According to the outcome of the ninth summit, three main points can be emphasized: the intention to transform into a full-fledged international organization-1, an attempt at integration in trade, economic and financial integration-2, the development of transport interconnection of Turkic states and the diversification of transport communication between Europe and Asia.