Leaders of the Organisation of Turkic States (OTS) have announced at a summit in Kazakhstan that they are advancing their joint Eurasian forces towards the alliance’s strategic political and economic coordination amid rapid global geopolitical and technological developments, while emphasising that their alliance is not intended for military or geopolitical purposes.
The leaders of Kazakhstan, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and others gathered in the historic Kazakh city of Turkistan, the spiritual capital of the Turkic world, to work together on designing joint AI and digital developments and integration for the member states and the wider region, but also for the Turkic states to work together on hosting alternative global supply routes and connectivity to the world’s energy routes disruptions.
Held under the theme “Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development,” the OTS summit was hosted by Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and gathered his counterparts from Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Uzbekistan’s Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Azerbaijan’s Ilham Aliyev, Kyrgyzstan’s Sadyr Zhaparov and the secretary general of the OTS, Ambassador Kubanychbek Omuraliev, for their strategic cooperation whose combined economic potential reached $2.4 trillion in 2025, as announced by Uzbekistan’s president.
