Uzbekistan officially applied to join the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States (CCTS), Turkey’s foreign minister said on Thursday.
"I have good news. Uzbekistan decided to join to the Turkic Council as well. They officially applied to the secretariat of Turkic Council," the Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told to a local gathering in Ankara, Turkey’s capital.
Application documents were immediately sent to Uzbekistan, Çavuşoğlu said.
"Turkmenistan also wants to become the observer state in the council," he added.
“For the first time we received a positive signal from Turkmenistan. They said they want to start as an observer country,” Turkey’s foreign minister said.
Turkic Council Secretary General Baghdad Amreyev and his assistant will go to Turkmenistan, Çavuşoğlu said. “Turkmenistan will be a crucial regional actor."
The Turkic Council was established in 2009 as a global intergovernmental organization an aim to promote comprehensive cooperation among Turkic speaking states.
Çavuşoğlu, who recalled that Hungary became an observer member in 2018, said the European branch of the Turkic Council would be opened in Sept. 19 in the Hungarian capital Budapest.
