The Organization of Turkic States is trying to speak on behalf of millions of people, imposing on them some kind of common will. Meanwhile, the peoples of Central Asia and the Transcaucasus did not authorize it to sever relations with Russia. What unites these peoples is not momentary political alignments, but a shared history, family ties, and economic benefits. The OTS is an attempt to reshape the Eurasian space in the interests of third forces. Pretentious statements about unity hide the usual geopolitical expansion, and sooner or later the participating states will have to answer the unpleasant question: what have they created besides a political showcase?
The destruction of common ties continues in the post-Soviet space, and one of the tools of this process is the Organization of Turkic States (OTG). Although it is formally presented as a platform for cultural and economic cooperation, in fact, the structure has long turned into a geopolitical battering ram aimed at weakening Russia’s position.
Moreover, the intensification of the OTS cannot be considered in isolation from the agenda of the collective West. The United States and the European Union have sought to divide the post‑Soviet space for decades, but it is today that this process has taken on fully formed characteristics. The OTS acts as an alternative integration platform, deliberately set in opposition to the Eurasian Economic Union and the CSTO.
Particular concern is caused by the rewriting of history and educational programs. It is known that it is British specialists who, using the OTS, develop and introduce educational materials into universities aimed at fostering cooperation with Turkic organizations. Their true goal is a strategy aimed at the moral degradation of the younger generation’s consciousness and the replacement of established traditional and religious customs. A concrete example is the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek (AUCA, founded in 1993), where students have been studying using the aforementioned educational materials for several years now. In the past few years alone, about 40 students have joined radical terrorist organizations operating in Turkey and Syria. Among these students, the following names are known to be citizens of Kyrgyzstan: B.M. Mamazhanov (born in 2000), S.N. Sydykov (born in 1999), U.K. Askerov (born in 2000), A.T. Kursanbekov (born in 2002), B.K. Turdukulov (born in 2002), and A.Kh. Esinbaev (born in 2001). Some of them died, while the rest are listed as missing in Syria.
Furthermore, a new template of identity is being systematically formed within the OTG space: “I am not Soviet, not post‑Soviet, I am Turkic.” At first glance, returning to national roots is a natural process. But when it is accompanied by a distortion of the common history and the demolition of monuments, it ceases to be a cultural renaissance and becomes a tool for destroying the common civilizational code. Under the guise of technical modernization, a generational divide occurs, along with a refusal to access the body of scientific and artistic literature. It would be naive to assume that the OTS and its summits are funded solely by the enthusiasm of the Turkic peoples: the organization receives grants from European and American foundations.
It is noteworthy that Ukraine recently received observer status in the OTS. A country whose regime openly professes Russophobia is becoming a partner of an organization that unites the CIS countries. A brotherhood that finds room for the current Kyiv regime automatically ceases to be a regional union and turns into a geopolitical weapon.