Abstract:

Along with Türkiye, there are languages of Azerbaijan in the South Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia that comes from the same Ural-Altaic language family and these languages are all related to each other. Together with this language union, the process of Cooperation Summits of Turkic-Speaking Countries started in 1992 to ensure cultural unity and solve economic and political problems by coming together. This process transformed into the Turkic Council in 2009, and the foundation of organizational integration was laid. However, the expectation in the relations among these states is not just a common language or historical or cultural integration but a common political and economic decoupling. At this point, full organizational integration has only occurred with the Organization of Turkic States in 2021. The most important development affecting the process leading to the organizational integration in question is the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. The conclusion of this war in favour of Azerbaijan, together with the Organization of Turkic States, has become a major step towards Turkic integration. Even though the subject of this study is the Organization of Turkic States, the main purpose of the study is to examine how the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War affected this organizational integration.

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