Özet:

The Historical Silk Road was the main route by which silk, spices, gold and other precious materials from the Far East were carried all the way over to Europe via the Italian city states on the Mediterranean Coast. Nonetheless, the Silk Road does not have to be considered only as a trade route in its narrow sense, because it served as a medium by which communities from the East and West got acquainted, and science, technology, civilization and art flew over and disseminated. Turkey stood to be a bridge on this classical route. Obviously, the historical Silk Road largely overlapped with what is called as the “Turkish World.” A careful investigation would show that vitality of the Silk Road trade in history brought about economic welfare and political effectiveness to the Turkish communities. Globalization at our time provides new opportunities to these newly independent states to get integrated with the world and promote their relations with Turkey. The fact that the Central Asian Region has no direct access to the open seas makes it compulsory to take up the historical Silk Road and revitalize it with the modern technological facilities in our times. Additionally, the rise of the Chinese economy in the Far East requires the modernization of this route. Modern Silk Road Project will provide rapid, dependable and uninterrupted railroad transportation between China in the Pacific and England on the Atlantic Ocean. Some historians called this route as the ‘Turkish Road’. The modernization and revitalization of the Silk Road will undoubtedly contribute to the economic, social and cultural ties between Turkey, Central Asian Turkish states and Azerbaijan to intensify and consequently to higher levels of welfare in the Turkish World. Lastly and perhaps more importantly, provision of cheap, easy and fast transportation will eliminate one of the fundamental deficiencies for the establishment of a common market in the Turkish World

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