The political scientist assessed Turkey's plans to unite the Turkic peoples
The goal of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS), which unites Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan as members, as well as Turkmenistan, Hungary and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC, recognized only by Ankara) as observers, is to create a Turkish, not a Turkic world. This was stated in an interview with Izvestia by Vladimir Avatkov, Head of the Department of the Middle and Post-Soviet East of the INION RAS, Professor of the Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy at MGLU.
He stressed that Russia is actually the largest country in the world in terms of the number of Turkic peoples.
"We are the homeland of the Turks. And here the outskirts, represented by Turkey, considers itself the main one, and forces everyone else to follow its logic. By the way, Hungarians also became Turks by joining Turkic organizations. They can pull others up, and the Finns, the Japanese, and the Mongols were discussed," the expert drew attention, noting that the tendency to reduce sovereignty in the fields of culture and language among the countries included in the TG is dangerous.
At the same time, according to the political scientist, Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan is glad that he is quite successfully building a "Turkish-centric system where Turkey will be on horseback in the form of the Turks of Transcaucasia and Central Asia."
Avatkov paid special attention to the cooperation of the TG countries in the field of defense industry and the preparation of joint exercises.
"And how will everything that happens relate to the CSTO and the EAEU? No way, I'm afraid. Obviously, they will train according to the Turkish standards of the North Atlantic Alliance. And the main question is, who will the countries train against?" the source pointed out the problem.
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