turkey, pan-turkism and central asia

this research seeks to study the impact of pan-turkist ideology on central asia. the collapse of the soviet :union: and independence of the central asian and caucasian states once again revitalized hopes among the pan-turkist theoreticians and strategists who were hopeless about the implementation of their project of establishing a turkic empire in the southern parts of the soviet :union:. considering the pan-turkist ideals in turkey's foreign policy and the 15-year long efforts by the country's politicians and intellectuals in promoting the pan-turkist project of alliance among central asian republics, this article addresses these efforts and their effects on central asia and finally regional countries' reaction to the pan-turkist ideals. the main hypothesis of the research includes that unlike original ideas, pan-turkism has not progressed so much in its political aspects, which made turkish politicians hesitant about it. nonetheless, .