Significance of Organization of Turkic States: Rising political and economic potential of the organization

Organization of Turkic States (OTS) is in the process of becoming one of the proactive political, economic, and energy actors of the Eurasian region. Geostrategic positions of its member states play a very important role in terms of contributing to capacity of the Organization to be influential in regional affairs of Eurasia, particularly in promoting cooperation both within the OTS and with the third parties, participating in conflict resolution processes of the region, and ensuring peace and stability in international affairs. Likewise, thanks to geostrategic positions of its member states, OTS gets an opportunity of playing a role of bridge between the East and the West and the North and the South. This thesis aims to emphasize political, economic, and energy potential of the OTS and reveal ways that would help Turkic-speaking states to have closer rapprochement prospects by adopting common policies, especially in the fields of politics, foreign affairs, military, economy, customs, energy, and transportation. Through becoming more institutionalized Organization, OTS will be able to introduce itself an ambitious player of the new world order. Additionally, relationships of OTS with Europe in the case of European Union's energy insecurity, with Russia in the case of Ukrainian war, and with China in the case of Belt and Road Initiative will be among topics that this thesis will elaborate on.