Ankara OTS declaration sets 2027 summits for Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan

Following the Ankara summit, OTS leaders adopted a 163-point declaration: the 14th summit will be held in Uzbekistan in 2027, an informal summit in Kyrgyzstan, and the chairmanship has passed to Türkiye.

RuskiGazeta Editorial DeskOctober 30, 2026, 05:13 PMUpdated: October 30, 2026, 10:30 PM

Ankara OTS declaration sets 2027 summits for Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan

Following the 13th summit in Ankara on October 30, leaders of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) adopted the 163-point Ankara Declaration. The chairmanship of the organization passed from Azerbaijan to Türkiye.

According to the document, the 14th OTS summit will be held in Uzbekistan in 2027, while Kyrgyzstan will host an informal summit in the same year. The leaders welcomed Tashkent's designation as the tourism capital of the Turkic world for 2027. Mirvohid Azimov became the organization's new secretary-general, replacing Kubanychbek Omuraliev, who held the post from 2022 to 2026.

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In the transport sector, the declaration reaffirmed the commitment to developing the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route, known as the Middle Corridor, and fully utilizing the Baku–Tbilisi–Kars railway. It also supported the Zangezur Corridor, the China–Kyrgyzstan–Uzbekistan railway and the Trans-Afghan railway. The countries were invited to develop an OTS transport corridors strategy.

In the security field, the leaders agreed to examine the possibility of establishing an OTS Defense Industry College under Türkiye and to accelerate consultations on creating a Cybersecurity Council.

The declaration also calls for examining the possibility of designating separate lanes at international airports for citizens of OTS countries and holding consultations on allowing footballers from member states not to be treated as foreign players in one another's leagues. Production of the joint TDT-SAT cubesat has been completed.

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In the energy sector, the declaration highlighted the strategic importance of the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan oil pipeline and the Southern Gas Corridor, while supporting the development of green energy corridors.

Personnel for the Defense Industry

The idea of the Defense Industry College of the OTS under Turkey is designed to expand the exchange of knowledge and technology in the defense industry and to establish the training of qualified specialists. The leaders also positively assessed the results of the meetings of the secretaries of the security councils of the OTS countries with the heads of defense industry departments and called for accelerating work on the creation of a Council for Combating Crime.

Cyprus, Gaza, and Syria

The declaration calls for achieving a negotiated, mutually acceptable, and sustainable settlement of the Cyprus issue, taking into account the realities on the island, as well as supporting efforts to ensure equal rights for Turkish Cypriots.

Regarding Gaza, the leaders advocated for the full implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 2803 and the Comprehensive Plan for ending the conflict in Gaza, as well as for the implementation of the two-state principle. The summit participants reaffirmed their support for the territorial integrity and unity of Syria, its security, stability, and reconstruction.

Common Turkic Alphabet

The document supports the dissemination of a common Turkic alphabet of 34 letters. The leaders highly appreciated the work of the Turkic Academy in developing principles for its use and publishing books in this alphabet, and also supported the project of a single OTS museum card.

The full text of the Ankara Declaration is published on the website of the Organization of Turkic States.

Ankara OTS declaration sets 2027 summits for Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan