The Organization of Turkic-Speaking States, created in 2021 under the aegis of Turkey, gathered its foreign ministers in an extraordinary session on January 11 to discuss the choice of Moscow made by the President of Kazakhstan to restore order in his country .
“Russia has taken Kazakhstan out of the axis of the Turkish-speaking world”, headlines the Moscow daily Nezavissimaïa Gazeta, specifying: “These are the peacekeepers of the ex-Soviet countries, not the representatives of the ‘Grand Turan’ [idéologie panturque de l’union de tous les peuples turcophones, promue depuis plus d’un siècle], who restore order in Kazakhstan. ”
Central link of the Turkish world
Turkey is worried regarding losing “this central link of the ‘Turkic world’ ”, Kazakhstan. Following the violent riots that took place between January 2 and 9, caused by the rise in gas prices, Kazakhstan has in fact ruled on a “Islamist terrorist attack” and called on the peacekeepers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a regional politico-military organization under the aegis of Moscow and of which Kazakhstan is a member, to restore order.
Ironically, it is Nursultan Nazarbaev, the former president of Kazakhstan, the gray eminence of Kazakhstani politics and the target of the anger of the demonstrators last week, who, since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, worked with energy for “Unite all Turkish speakers who might become an effective force in the world”, reminds the Russian media Analytical Network News Agency.
“We are ready to provide any help and support to our Kazakh brothers”, hastened to declare the Turkish Defense Minister, Hulusi Akar, quoted by Nezavissimaïa Gazeta. He recalled the “Turkey’s success in the fight once morest terrorism, especially in Syria”, as for “To signal to Kazakhstan that it would be more profitable to cooperate with Turkey than with Russia”.
And the Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlüt Cavusoglu, relayed by the Azerbaijani site Trend, to increase: “The problems of a country member of the Turkish world are the concern of all the members, the world might see it on the example of the victory [de l’alliance turco-azerbaïdjanaise] au Karabakh [contre les Arméniens en 2020]”.
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Alda Engoian
