Organization of Turkic States

The Organization of Turkic States (OTS), formerly called the Turkic Council or the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States, is an intergovernmental organization comprising all but one of the internationally recognized Turkic sovereign states: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan; while Hungary, Turkmenistan and Northern Cyprus are observers. Its overarching aim is promoting comprehensive cooperation among the Turkic peoples. First proposed by Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev in 2006, it was founded on 3 October 2009 in Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan. The General Secretariat is located in Turkey's Istanbul.

Organization of Turkic States Azerbaijani: Türk Dövlətləri Təşkilatı Hungarian: Türk Államok Szervezete Kazakh: Түркі мемлекеттерінің ұйымы Kyrgyz: Түркий мамлекеттеринин уюму Turkish: Türk Devletleri Teşkilatı Turkmen: Türki döwletleriň guramasy Uzbek: Turkiy davlatlar tashkiloti
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Member states   Observer states
Area
• Total	4,242,362 km2 (1,637,985 sq mi)

See also

• Turkic languages