At the OTS summit in Ankara, Mirziyoyev proposed the 'Turkic World — 100' program, a unified legal assistance treaty and travel with ID cards

The Ankara summit and Uzbekistan's initiatives

On 30 October, the 13th summit of the Organization of Turkic States was held in Ankara under the motto 'The Turkic Century: Unity in Language, Thought and Deed'. Alongside Shavkat Mirziyoyev, it was attended by the presidents of Turkey, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan, the foreign minister of Azerbaijan, and the organization's Secretary General Kubanychbek Omuraliev, reported the press service of the President of Uzbekistan. Before the summit, the Uzbekistan national-cultural complex opened in Beshtepe Park, which Mirziyoyev called a step in preserving the shared heritage of Turkic peoples.

Economy and legal protection of business

The central economic proposal is the 'Turkic World — 100' program, covering 100 strategic joint investment and industrial projects. Priorities named include full processing of rare and strategic minerals, localization of equipment production for green energy, and the output of high-value products; financing is expected to be attracted from the Turkic Investment Fund and international financial organizations. According to the text of the speech, published by the press service, Mirziyoyev also called for developing a multilateral treaty 'On Mutual Legal Assistance in Commercial Matters', which would create a basis for the mutual recognition and enforcement of court decisions, and a digital platform for electronic document exchange between authorized bodies.

Logistics, tourism and citizen travel

In transport, the president proposed turning the Middle Corridor and connected routes into an integrated economic system by creating a Network of Logistics Complexes of Turkic Countries with joint management. In tourism, given that in 2025 the OTS member states were visited by more than 100 million foreign tourists, he proposed creating a Turkic Tourism Alliance. For citizens, he proposed developing a multilateral agreement on mutual travel that would expand the ability to travel using ID cards and simplify border crossings and stays in the host country.

Education, ecology and organizational decisions

Uzbekistan will annually allocate 200 educational grants to representatives of Turkic countries under the 'Yangi O'zbekiston' scholarship program, designed for 500 foreign students. The summit supported the Uzbek initiative to declare 2027 the Year of Environmental Protection within the OTS; priority tasks are planned to be considered at COP-31 in Antalya. Mirziyoyev also proposed creating a 'Pan-Turkic Dictionary of Words', uniting words common to Turkic peoples. Among the organizational outcomes: the international Alisher Navoi prize was awarded to the Kazakh diplomat Dussen Kasseinov, Kyrgyz President Sadyr Zhaparov was awarded the highest Order of the Turkic World, Uzbekistan's representative Mirvohid Azimov was approved as a candidate for Secretary General, the chairmanship passed from Azerbaijan to Turkey, and the next summit in 2027 will be held in Uzbekistan.

What this means in practice

Most of the measures announced are proposals rather than adopted decisions: the legal assistance treaty, the agreement on travel with ID cards, the 'Turkic World — 100' program and the tourism alliance still need to be developed and approved by the organization's member states. The adopted organizational decisions of the summit include the approval of Mirvohid Azimov's candidacy for Secretary General, the transfer of the chairmanship to Turkey, and the holding of the 2027 summit in Uzbekistan — meaning Uzbekistan will remain at the center of the OTS agenda in the coming years.