The key facts

  • The Turkic World Dialogue Forum was held in Ankara as part of the 13th Summit of the Organization of Turkic States
  • Burhanettin Duran called for turning fact-checking against disinformation from an individual institutional task into a common reflex of the region's countries
  • Special attention was given to training AI models on quality content in Turkic languages

Forum within the 13th Summit of the OTS

Turkey's Directorate of Communications held the Turkic World Dialogue Forum in Ankara on Friday, timed to the 13th Summit of the Organization of Turkic States, Anadolu reports. According to the head of the directorate, Burhanettin Duran, the forum was dedicated to the shared history of the Turkic world, cooperation in communications, and common goals for the future.

Disinformation and AI as common challenges

Duran stated that Turkey, under the leadership of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has been and will remain part of the shared path of the Turkic world. He emphasized that, in advancing cooperation under the 'Turkic World Vision — 2040,' it is necessary to strengthen a common language, collective memory, and communication capacity. In his view, it is strategically important that artificial intelligence models be trained on quality content created in their own languages and based on their own resources — this, he said, makes it possible to shape the agenda about the Turkic world with one's own voice and values. He called the fight against disinformation in the digital age a separate shared responsibility: fact-checking against disinformation targeting the Turkic world should turn 'from an individual institutional responsibility into a common reflex.'

What this means for Uzbekistan

Duran explicitly included Tashkent in the proposed coordination model: according to him, one of the key goals of cooperation should be responding equally quickly to disinformation campaigns from the capitals of any member state — he cited the example of a campaign originating in Bishkek, to which Baku, Tashkent, Astana, and Ankara could respond with equal speed. Thus, for Uzbekistan, this concerns possible participation in a joint rapid-response system against disinformation within the OTS; the publication did not report any specific decisions or mechanisms from the forum.