Pan-Turkic juggernaut eyes subverts of Russia, Iraq, Iran, Moldova, Central Asia, Syria, Kurdistan, Bulgaria, etc
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Russia is concerned Turkey’s growing influence over central Asia’s Turkic nations could challenge its authority and fuel separatism in the region, according to U.S.-based think tank the Jamestown Foundation.
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Russia concerned by Turkey’s growing influence in the Turkic world
Previously known as the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States, the organisation’s members include Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan….
Commentators in Moscow argue Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan could seek to expand membership to Turkic nations within Russia’s national borders….
On a visit to Baku last December, Erdoğan caused controversy by quoting a poem that seemingly endorsed separatism in Iran’s West Azerbaijan province, earning a stiff rebuke from Tehran.
Erdoğan has also previously claimed Iran’s ethnic Azerbaijanis are a matter for Ankara, adding to concerns in Russia that the Turkish president could seek to exploit Turkic peoples in its territory from the North Caucasus to the far east….
This includes Sakha, a large republic in east Russia that is increasingly looking to Turkey with the encouragement of the Turkic council despite being non-Muslim, the think tank said. Another example is Gagauzia, a Turkic but Orthodox Christian region in Moldova, which Moscow has previously used to pressure the government in Chișinău, it added.
A partner of Turkey’s ruling party, leader of the Nationalist Movement Party Develt Bahceli has gifted President Erdogan a map of the Turkic world.
Bahceli shared on his Twitter blog a photo of him gifting the President of Turkey a map of the Turkic World that he had personally drawn, showing a major part of the Russian Federation in the color of ‘the Turkic World’.
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