Turkic Council

Cooperation Council of Turkic-Speaking States (Turkic Council) Türk Şurası  (Azerbaijani) Түрік кеңесі  (Kazakh) Түрк кеңеш  (Kyrgyz) Türk Konseyi  (Turkish)
Members   Possible future members   Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
Headquarters		Istanbul, Turkeya Baku, Azerbaijanb Astana, Kazakhstanc
Official languages		Azerbaijani Kazakh Kyrgyz Turkish English
Member states		Azerbaijan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Turkey
Leaders
-	Secretary-General	Halil Akıncı
Establishment		3 October 2009
Website turkkon.org/
a.	General Secretariat.
b.	Parliamentary Assembly.
c.	Turkic Academy.

The Turkic Council (Azerbaijani: Türk Şurası; Kazakh: Түрік кеңесі; Kyrgyz: Түрк кеңеш; Turkish: Türk Konseyi) or, in full, the Cooperation Council of Turkic-Speaking States (CCTS; Turkish: Türk Dili Konuşan Ülkeler İşbirliği Konseyi), is an international organization comprising Turkic countries. It was founded on 3 October 2009 in Nakhchivan. The General Secretariat is in İstanbul, Turkey. The member countries are Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkey. The remaining two Turkic states, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are not currently official members of the council due to their neutral stance; however, they are possible future members of the council. The idea of setting up this cooperative council was first put forward by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev back in 2006.

History

Since 1992, the Turkic Language Speaking Countries Summit has been organizing amongst the Turkic countries. On October 3, 2009, four of these countries signed the Nahcivan Agreement.

The Turkic Council has three headquarters: The General Secretariat is in İstanbul, Turkey, the Turkic Academy is in Astana, Kazakhstan which was founded in 1992 in the former capital Almaty (and which has been relocated to the new capital Astana in 1997) and the Turkic Countries Parliamentarian Assembly is in Baku, Azerbaijan which was founded in 1998. The two organizations were coopted into the Turkic Council.

Members

Country	Population	Area (km²)	GDP (nominal)	GDP per capita (nominal) (2011)	Projected GDP per capita (nominal) (2015)
Azerbaijan	9,165,000	86,600	$98.16 billion	$10,340	$16,758
Kazakhstan	16,600,000	2,724,900	$182.3 billion	$13,484	$17,946
Kyrgyzstan	5,356,869	199,900	$10.8 billion	$2,363	$3,005
Turkey	73,722,988	783,562	$735.3 billion	$10,106	$16,778

Possible future members

Country	Population	Area (km²)	GDP (nominal)	GDP per capita (nominal) (2011)
Northern Cyprus	294,906	3,355	3.9 billion	$16,158
Uzbekistan	27,606,007	447,400	86.1 billion	$3,248
Turkmenistan	5,110,000	488,100	31.966 billion	$7,357

Foundations

The Turkic Council comprises the following sub-units:

• General Secretariat (İstanbul)
  • Presidents' Council (İstanbul)
  • Foreign Ministers' Council (İstanbul)
  • Senior Bureaucrats' Committee (İstanbul)
  • Wise Men Commission (İstanbul)
  • Parliamentarian Assembly (TURKPA; Baku)
  • Turkic Council Academy (Astana)
  • International Organization of Turkic Culture (TÜRKSOY; Ankara)

Presidents meet twice a year in a previously determined Turkic city. Bureaucrats and the Wise Men Commission meet on a regular basis.

External links

• Official TURKIC COUNCIL website