Implementation Instruments of Pan-Turkism in Modern Turkish Foreign Policy and their Perception by Key Regional and Extra-regional Actors

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.