Pan-Turkism Fuels Turkey's Ambitions in Central Asia

Analysis author: Kacper Ochman:
-former analyst at Centre for Eastern Studies
Video production: Łukasz Szypulski
Voiceover: Hubert Walas
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[Kazakhstan.Gov_]

Greetings from Kazakhstan to our turkic brothers ❤ 🇹🇷🇹🇲🇰🇬🇰🇿🇺🇿🇦🇿

[БобёрБобрович-жы]

Greeting to all Turkic people from the Republic of Bashkortostan 💙💚🤍

[uxaines]

I'm from central asian country, and here 80% of young people are panturkists, becoming conservative nationalists.

[era]

Turki kardeshlarga Kazakistannan selam bolsyn

[Er-Eldey]

Greetings from the Altai Republic to our Turkic brothers and sisters. Alga Turkter

[FakeFreckles]

small linguistics note for clarity. the turkic languages originated in southern Siberia and spread south east eventually to modern day Turkey, not the other way around. the video is amazing, another great one!

[Nicholas.Rogala]

Fascinating how Turkey, Russia, and China are all vying for influence in the central Asian states. I hope there will be future videos detailing how this drama plays out.

[Tennis]

Greetings to all my Turkic brothers from Tabriz, South Azerbaijan (Iran)

[Warrior_Of_Light]

this is just beginning, keep watching you will be shocked when you see the future position of Turkey i am a japanese, I have been living in Turkey for 7 years turkey is industrializing incredibly fast, developing technology i am comparing the current state of Turkey to the state of the people's republic of China at the beginning of the 2000s

[RGARnator]

Much of russia is turkish dominated, with the turkic populations booming while the ethnic russian population crashes. A broken up russia would allow for much more Turkish influence in the region.

[amansembiev]

It's fascinating how lately more and more people have started talking about Central Asia

[nenenindonu]

Modern Central Asia only consists of post-Soviet "stan countries" Historical Central Asia however refers to a vast geography stretching from modern Central Asia all the way to the Mongolian-Manchurian grassland of the Far East

[shamsiddinmatrazikov]

Uzbekistan together with Turkic States

[buritekin]

All nations of Central Asia are East Turks. We Eastern Turks will build one union with our West brothers which are Turkye and Azerbadjan. One Turan will be recreated! My best wiches to all Turk kind!

[chilldude]

You've been so prolific with the videos lately. Your efforts are much appreciated, thank you GTBT!

[choblastr]

This is probably hard to see for an observer from the outside.. but it's not just on a diplomatic level that Turkey and the other Turkic states have gotten exponentially closer in the past decade.

10/15 years ago, if I looked up videos on Turkic history the Turkic comments were 90% Turkish, 5 to 10% Azerbaijani. If I looked up virdeos on different Turkic peoples, most of the comments from other Turkic people were largely Turkish comments etc etc.

Today, if you look up videos on Turkic history .. you see a diversity of comments from all over the Turkic world. From independent Turkic states in central Asia, to Ughurs to Tatars and other Turkic people from autonomous Russian federal republics etc The Turkish comments get drowned out by the amount of interest shown by other Turkic people.

Azerbaijan and Turkey have always been close. But today? Esp after Karabag? The saying "two states, one nation" which both people have used for decades is basically a reality. We are closer than ever before. Turkish language videos be it news, tv, shows, series and movies are full of Azerbaijani and also central Asian Turkic comments. My mother came to visit me recently and asked if I could put some Turkish tv show on. I did and noticed the live chat under the video was almost entirely Azerbaijani from both Azerbaijan but also Iran. And a lot of Turkmen (Iraqi, Syrian Turkmen) comments etc.

Turkic people throughout are rediscovering their own identity and their connection to each other. And I think it helps that Turkey is successful in projecting soft and hard power all over. Be it Syria/Idlib, Libya, Karabag or the destruction Turkish systems have been sowing in Ukraine against the Russians.. Turkey has been humiliating the former USSR and kinda showed that in a sense Russia is a paper tiger. Especially now with Ukraine I think even the biggest fans and assimilated pro Russian people in central Asia have taken a step back and reassessed the situation. Because not only is Russia fighting a war that it's getting humiliated in, basically everyone agrees it's not a just war. On top of that Russia loves to threaten their neighbors constantly .. like Russian parliamentarians saying that Kazakhstan isn't even a real country etc etc (basically same stuff they said about Ukraine)


Anyway, my point is. This isn't just diplomatic efforts between countries. The more there is a will from the people to connect, learn and discover about each other the more pressure there is on governments to act on it. The more politicians, teachers, diplomats, influencers, historians, sociologists etc will grow up to want to further discover and expand those bonds. Not because there is some profit but because it becomes a point of pride, ideology, love a passion.

I think this is just a start to be honest, and depending on how things go we could see a much higher level of cooperation between these states. And I truly do hope that happens. Not just because I am proud of my heritage, but because we are stronger, more prosperous and more capable together.

[ceylin]

Türkiye'den azeri, kırgız, özbek, türkmen, kazak kardeşlerime selamlar hepinizi çok seviyorum

[uxaines]

Kyrgyzstan has already all the 4 types of Turkish combat drones, Bayaraktar TB 2, Akinci, Anka and Aksungur.

[kapoink]

Greeting to all Turkic people from the Republic of Banjornozalkistan 💛❤💚