Implementation Instruments of Pan-Turkism in Modern Turkish Foreign Policy and their Perception by Key Regional and Extra-regional Actors
https://doi.org/10.53658/RW2025-4-1(15)-57-81
Abstract
This article examines the instruments for implementing the pan-Turkism policy and the positions of regional and extra-regional actors. The fundamental principles of the ideology of pan-Turkism laid at the basis of the created instruments. On the one hand, the author shows this connection and on the other hand, she analyzes the role of these instruments in the context of Turkey’s foreign policy. The activities of these instruments in Turkic-speaking countries are assesses particular the programs and possibilities of the Organization of Turkic States and “Turkic integration”. The author analyzes the position of regional and extra-regional actors in relation to Turkey’s integration projects, as well as the specifics of these actors’ policies. The argument of the article is that a number of structures and organizations created by Turkey after the collapse of the USSR, such as the International Turkic Academy, schools, universities, Yunus Emre Institutes, TIKA, TURKSOY, OTS, are the instruments for the implementation of pan-Turkism or “Turkic integration”, and their main goal is to achieve the creation of a political unit on an ethnolinguistic identity.
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Supporting agencies: The article was prepared within the framework of the International Academic Mobility Program of the National Research Institute for Communications Development. The author would like to thank Valentina V.Komleva, Alexander D.Vasiliev and Elena A.Kuzmenko for their useful advices and consultations.
About the Author
N. A. Minasyan
Institute of Armenian Studies of YSU
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Nelli A. MINASYAN. CandSc. (Hist.). Associate Professor. Researcher at the Department of Strategic Studies of Relations between neighboring states and Neighboring Countries
1, Alek Manukyan str., Yerevan, 0025
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Minasyan N.A. Implementation Instruments of Pan-Turkism in Modern Turkish Foreign Policy and their Perception by Key Regional and Extra-regional Actors. Russia & World: Sc. Dialogue. 2025;(1):57-81. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.53658/RW2025-4-1(15)-57-81
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