Abstract:

It is seen that the People's Republic of China, one of the most important actors in the Asian continent, has taken sustainable steps to become the global hegemony of the 21st century with its geostrategic and geoeconomic advantages. The most substantial of these steps is the One Belt One Road (OBOR) project, known as the Silk Road, which has shaped trade routes in a modern sense for a long time. The OBOR project aims to promote regional integration, strengthen economic, cultural and social ties between China and other partner countries, base new platforms of cooperation, and establish energy supply security for China. China desires to connect Asia, Europe and Africa continents by sea and land, thus provides large amounts of grants and loans by cooperating with many national and international institutions. This study, which covers three countries, is based on case studies research method and makes an important claim. OBOR project will both provide opportunities and advantages for Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkey and it may create financial dependency of the three countries on China. In order to verify this claim, both the trade volume between the three countries and China and the debt of these countries to China through the OBOR project were examined. The study tried to seek an answer the question of what strategies China has used on the Turkish states in order to develop and expand the OBOR project in the current period.

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