Linking hands across the steppes

摘要

Soon after the Soviet empire collapsed, Turkey's then president Suleyman De-mirel had a dream. He spoke of a revived Turkic commonwealth which would stretch from the Adriatic to China. Underpinning this vision was at least one hard fact: five of the new states which emerged from the Soviet wreckage speak languages related to Turkish. But as Turkey has discovered, turning fantasies of post-Soviet brotherhood into reality can involve tough choices-economic, diplomatic or even moral.