Türkiye was the first country to establish diplomatic relations with the Turkic Republics and to open an embassy in 1991. Culture, language, religion and social affinity and ties from the past between Türkiye and the Turkic Republics have been important factors in the shaping and development of relations between these states. Türkiye was the first country to recognize the independence of Azerbaijan on November 9th 1991. Similarly, when Kazakhstan declared its independence on December 16th 1991, Türkiye was the first country to recognize it.
PDFErkinbek Turgunov is a researcher at the Eurasian Research Institute at the International Kazakh-Turkish University named after Khoja Ahmed Yasawi. From 2005 to 2009, he studied at the at the South Kazakhstan Pedagogical University and from 2014 to 2016 he studied at the Kazakh National Pedagogical University named after Abay. In 2008 began working as a correspondent in the Republican magazine "Zhalyn." He is currently working on a Ph.D. thesis on methodologies of teaching B. Maylin’s biography.