Threats to Territorial Integrity as the Key Challenge for Turkic CIS States Security

After the collapse of the bipolar system of the international relations, a set of states entered the international arena. Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kirgizia, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan were among them. Moreover, for a long time these countries had been advancing in the framework of a monolithic geopolitical space – the Russian Empire and then the USSR. Thus, for many years their viewpoint concerning the current world order had much in common. Concurrently, the very fact that the vast majority of the population of these states was presented by adherents of the Islamic faith added a certain touch to their understanding of processes taking place for a long time. At the same time, the religious factor could not become the prevailing in the process of nation building especially during the tensions on the international arena, although a well-known political scientist Huntington claimed the opposite. Acknowledging the fact that to challenge emerging threats successfully, one needs to have real allies and partners, the states recognize that a part of their ideology belongs to the Turkic world. The objective of the article is to show that establishing of a new system of regional security based on Turkic identity by Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan followed the necessity to counteract threats in the sphere of territorial integrity. Stating this objective defined the methods applied in the research. Taking into consideration focusing on a long duration process, historic and genetic method was used in the research. The results obtained due to the research reveal that the Turkic states of post-Soviet space tend to construct the new security system, where language identification gives them an opportunity to establish a well-balanced interaction with different centers of power.