Federation of Turkic States Тüркли Давлатлар Фэдерацияси Türkli Davlatlar Federatsiyasi (Göktürkic) Федерация Государств Тюрки Federatsiya Gosudarstv Tyurki (Russian) OTE: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan |
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| Capital | Almaty | |||||
| Official languages | Göktürkic (national) Russian (co-official) |
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| Recognised regional languages | Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyzs, Turkmen, Karakalpak, Uyghur | |||||
| Demonym | Göktürkian | |||||
| Government | Constitutional monarchy, parliamentary democracy | |||||
| - | Khan | Ertuğrul I | ||||
| - | Prime Minister' | Yulduz Temürova | ||||
| Legislature | State Great Khural | |||||
| - | Upper House | Senate | ||||
| - | Lower House | Assembly | ||||
| Population | ||||||
| - | estimate | 74,761,123 | ||||
| Currency | Dinar | |||||
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The Federation of Turkic States (Göktürkic: Тüркли Давлатлар Фэдерацияси, Türkli Davlatlar Federatsiyasi; Russian: Федерация Государств Тюрки, Federatsiya Gosudarstv Tyurki) also known as just Göktürkia or Gokturkia is a country in Central Asia. It borders Russia to the north, China to the east, Tajikistan and Persia to the south.
In c. 1000 and earlier Central Asia was inhabited predominantly by Iranian peoples, populated by Eastern Iranian-speaking Bactrians, Sogdians, Chorasmians, and the semi-nomadic Scythians and Dahae. During the Battle of Talas, the Tang dynasty's victory over the Arabs saw the expansion of Buddhism into the region. After expansion by Turkic peoples, Central Asia also became the homeland for the Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Tatars, Turkmens, Kyrgyz, and Uyghurs; Turkic languages largely replaced the Iranian languages spoken in the area, with the exception of Tajikistan and areas where Tajik is spoken.
From the mid-19th century until almost the end of the 20th century, Central Asia was colonised by the Russians, and incorporated into Russia, where it was integrated as the Grand Duchy of Central Asia, where it became a haven of Buddhism in Russia. In the 1990s, the former Grand Duchy of Central Asia was officially transformed into the Provisional State of Central Asia as the Russia experienced revolution and territorial losses, the Central State State was formed in 2000, renamed to Gokturkia and proclaimed a Khaganate under a constitutional monarchy, with the House of Manghit as the constitutional rulers. However, the Khagan of Gokturkia is a constitutional and figurehead term.
In the 21st century, the country recovered quickly from the turmoil of the 1990s, with large-scale improvements in the quality of life thanks to government incentives. Thanks to Chinese investments, it is considered "China's most western economic regions".
Gokturkia is a major regional power, and being part of both the CSO and the Vostok Bloc, it is considered a buffer between the Chinese, Russian and Muslim World zones of influence, however China still enjoys overwhelming influence over Gokturkia, while Russia is the primary exporter of military goods to Gokturkia. It vast amounts of natural gas and precious metals has made it very wealthy.
Etymology and names[]
The name Göktürkia originates from the Göktürks ancient Turkic civilization that inhabited Central Asia. From 1991 to 2000, the country was simply named the Central Asian Provisional State, or just Central Asia. In 1995, the various leaders within Central Asia decided to name the country after the ancient Turkic civilization, as they encompassed the most expansive region in Central Asia.
Another proposed name was Chagatai, to which the Göktürkic language was previously referred to as Chagatai Turkic. However, the original ancient Göktürk language, also known as Orkhon Turkic, originated from Okhon Valley in Mongolia, and is considered a different, but related languages to Modern Göktürkic. The name Chagatai is from the second son of Genghis Khan, Chagatai Khan. The original Chagatai Khanate included less of Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan and was more fixated on the eastern Central Asia, as well as modern-day Xinjiang in China. Therefore, Chagatai was ruled out in favor of Göktürkia.
History[]
PoD: Battle of Talas, Dominance of Islam halted[]
In this alternate timeline, the Tang dynasty emerges victorious over the Arab forces in the Battle of Talas. Therefore, while Islam remainds a widespread religion in Central Asia, it is still a minority against Buddhism and Tengrism. Central Asia eventually becomes a tributary state to the Tang dynasty, and thus, Buddhism and Tengrism come to dominate Central Asian religion.
As a result, two main brands of Buddhism develop in Central Asia: Tibetan and Mahayana Buddhism.
Russian rule ???? - 1989[]
Interwar Period[]
During the Interwar Period, Central Asia remained part of Russia. Additionally, Central Asia developed a reputation similar to Area 51, where many secretive joint Chinese-Russian scientific experiments and development of futuristic weapons took place in Central Asia.
At the same time, the imperial government allowed Turkic ethnic nationalism to thrive, with the co-promotion of Chagatai Turkic alongside Russian, and the Chagatai Turkic language became revived, however, it adopted the Cyrillic script as the its main orthography.
World War II[]
Central Asia never experienced the horrors of World War II, and was again, the capital of Russia's production. Central Asia contributed materials and supplies for the war effort. Militarily-speaking, a total of 560,000 Central Asians fought in the frontliners in Eastern Europe during the Second World War, out of the 788,320 total Central Asians who served, those that didn't fight the frontlines served in non-combative roles in the military.
Cold War[]
In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, Russia emerged as the most victorious European or Eurasian country. Having re-gained the Baltics and conquered Eastern Europe as a buffer region against future western invasions, Russia could focus less on over relying on Central Asia - yet Central Asia still played a pivotal role in the scientific and space race against the German and Chinese Empires.
The Biakonour Cosmodrome in Alash (OTL: Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan) was built on the Kazakh Steppe. During this era, under the leadership of Kargazi Qadaimarimidiyev, an ethnic Kazakh who became the Governor of Central Asia from ??? to ???, began to actively promote the sciences for native Central Asians, and helped establish science and technology schools that also taught in the native languages.
Although the Biakonour Cosmodrone's workforce was predominantly Russian in the early Cold War, later on, the workforce started employing more and more Central Asians.
Independence from Russia 1989-present[]
Central Asian Provisional State 1991-2000[]
In the 1990s, Russia experienced territorial collapse (not as bad as Soviet collapse of OTL), to which, the Central Asia was one of the regions that declared its independence.
The new Provisional Independent State of Central Asia was established in place of the former Governorate of Central Asia with Temur Uqsadiqudov as its Head of State of the Provisional State. Although while the major powers of Russia, China and India recognized the independence of Central Asia, the country was anything but stable, and the people were still divided between Turkic nationalists, Islamists and even those who wanted seperate and independent Turkic-speaking republics.
With Almaty declared the capital city of Central Asia. Alash and Uzbekia were the main centers of cultural, economic and political power, and a light rivalry occurred between Almaty and Tashkent, the people of each city claiming that their's should be the capital of Central Asia. Under the rule of Prime Minister Uqsadiqudov, martial law was declared as he had seen what had taken place in Yugoslavia, not wanting the same to happen between the Turkic peoples. In this alternative timeline, since Chagatai Turkic is revived during the days of Imperial Russian rule, it forms a basis of the lingua franca, and prevents Central Asia from Balkanizing. However, Kazakhs and Uzbeks become a very, very light version of Serbs and Croats.
The rise of the Constitutional Democratic Party, a constitutional monarchist party headed by Bukhara's Vizier, Atabek Chinarayev, spearheaded support for a constitutional monarchist government. However, Chinarayev did not run, and he choose Arsalan Buljamirov. In 1994, Arsalan Buljamirov of the Constitutional Democratic Party won the Gokturkian elections. Azamat I was crowned as the Khagan of Chagatai - but under a constitutional role. Prime Minister Buljamirov's government was opposed by the Islamic Party led by Abdullah Bashirov, a minority party that wished to establish an independent Islamic state in Central Asia.
Like much of the former Imperial Russian bloc, Prime Minister Buljamirov immediately looked to China for help in restoring and saving their already-plundered economies and their internal instability, which many accredit has having saved Central Asia from going the route that Yugoslavia went. While Prime Minister Buljamirov kept Central Asia an ally of Russia, and a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States, now viewed China as the superpower for many Asians to look too, signing more than 35 bilateral agreements with China before the country even officially joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
The former Province of Alash, was split between Kazakhia (Kazakhstan) and Kirgizia (Kyrgyzstan).
Companies in Central Asia, formerly owned by Russians, began to sell their assets to the Chinese. Kirgizia received some of the heaviest Chinese investments, but in-turn, the Chinese entrepreneurs would make efforts to hire native Kyrgyz, and in the decades to follow, Kirgizia transformed from being one of the poorest provinces in the Russian Empire, to one of the wealthiest in Central Asia.
It later entered the Shanghai Pact, and enjoyed visa-free travel into China. This allowed free movement of resources, goods and workers in between the two countries. However, thanks to the Baiko Oltas Cosmodrome, Central Asia also continued to maintain economic, military and political links with Russia, signing renewed agreements in 1992. It also rekindled its religious and cultural ties with Persia to the south. The Russian military continued its presence in the Biakonour Cosmodrome, and Central Asia and Russia began to joint-produce missiles even as separate countries.
In 1996 however, Prime Minister Buljamirov declared martial law, after the failed Islamic Revolution, which sought to establish an Islamic Republic in the country.
Economic growth and prosperity, Central Asia renamed to "Göktürkia" - 2000 through present[]
Prime Minister Oltas Tynyshbaev succeeded Buljamirov, culminating in another win for the Constitutional Democratic Party. In the year 2000, Central Asia entered into the Shanghai Pact, and the full-scale integration of the country into the Chinese economic zone commenced, while still retaining its alliance with Russia. Chinese companies exploited the natural resources, however hired Central Asiai citizens - the Turkic majority in the Chinese kingdom of Tujue/East Central Asia, and the speakers of Gokturkian also helped spearhead this. In addition, Central Asiai government also fomented close ties with the Muslim World, and in 2001, officially became a member of the Global Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, appeasing Islamists.
One of the provinces that saw major improvement was Kirgizia, which during Russian occupation, was one of the poorest provinces in the Russian Empire. The establishment of Chinese oil and mining companies in Kirgizia created a prosperous boom that saw the elimination of nearly 60% of poverty, and by 2012 - less than 6% of Kyrgyzia's population lived below the poverty line.
In addition, the tourism industry has also taken a large boom in the 21st century, due to Chagatay's various economic treaties and free-trade agreements with the surrounding countries of China, Russia and Persia.
This also reflected in the military of Central Asia, allowing it grow even more powerful than Ukraine, thanks to Prime Minister Tynyshbaev going on a "corruption manhunt" within the military, and successfully embarking on a technological modernization procurement agreement with Russia, importing the latest Russian military technology.
Tynyshbaev also went on an aggressive push to integrate the remote communities of Chagatay, and enacted government-funded housing improvements. Almaty and Tashkent would soon recieve foreign investors, and companies opening headquarters in those two cities, not only from China and Russia but also from Japan, Korea, Germany, United States, California and New York - with Honda opening a branch in Tashkent, and Hyundai and Samsung operating branches in Almaty.
In 2008, Central Asia was approved to become a part of the Chinese Satellite Weapons Program, and the Russian Space Defense Program.
Culture[]
Central Asia considered a haven of diverse Turkic-speaking groups. Apart from Chagatai Turkic, Kazakh is the most spoken native Turkic language, followed by Uzbek, Turkmen, Karakalpak, and Kyrgyzs. Most Gokturkians are trilingual, speaking Chagatai Turkic, a native language and Russian.
As Central Asia is considered a "melting pot" of cultures, in addition to Turco-Mongol, it also exhibits strong influences from Russia, Muslim World China and Persia, starting with the predominant religion of Shia Islam. Sufism is a strong part of Central Asiai culture. Tengrism has also made a revival, and it is estimated that 5% of Central Asians citizens consider themselves Tengrists.
Both Tsagaan Sar (Turco-Mongol Lunar New Year) and Islamic holidays, such as Ramadan and Christian Orthodox holidays are publicly observed in Central Asia.
Like their Mongolian counterparts, horse-backing riding, and hunting are part of Central Asian culture with the two countries sharing many cultural similarities. Yurt life is also a part of Central Asian culture, however with the urbanization campaigns and pogroms, yurt life is rather more part of "old culture", and is only used during festivals.
Military[]
Main article: Gokturkian Armed Forces
The Royal Armed Forces of Göktürkia are the official armed fighting wing of the government. The majority of its military equipment is imported from Russia, and currently, its small arms are locally licensed productions of Russian models. Its two main ground components include the Royal Ground Forces, the Royal Air Force, Royal Strategic Rocket and the Royal Miscellaneous Forces.
The military of Göktürkia currently has a total of 320,300 personnel. The largest of which include the Royal Ground Forces. As the country is landlocked, its does not have a navy, but instead, a Flotilla under the control of the Royal Miscellaneous Forces armed with light patrol vessels and corvettes. It currently has a total of 788 military aircraft, and employs the Sukhoi Su-27 and Su-35, and the Pantsir, S-300 and S-400 air defense systems and the Antonov heavy aircraft.
Göktürkia is also a holder of WMDs, possessing a known-total of 34 nuclear warheads, of the original 103, most of which were sent to Russia, under Prime Minister Tynyshbaev decided to keep 34 warheads for maintenance, and use by the armed forces as part of his ploy to keep the armed forces updated - something that was not disclosed until 2011, when the Central Asian military tested one of its RS 24-YARS ICBMs.
Currently, Göktürkia has the second-largest military of the former Russian Empire, thanks to the economic growth afforded to it by its alliance with China. Additionally, the armed forces of Central Asia is active in global military peace-keeping operations in the Middle East and Africa, and has assisted the Chinese military in Somalia.
The military forces of Göktürkia is among one of the more formidable and advanced military forces in Asia. It has a military expenditure of $77.5 billion. It is currently the most powerful military in the region of Central Asia.
Language[]
The people of Göktürkia on average are trilingual or bilingual at the least. Students typically learn 2 or 3 languages in school. In a typical public school, students learn Göktürkic and Russian, and in more specialized schools catering to speakers of a local language, students learn the local language, followed by Göktürkic and Russian.
Currently, Modern Göktürkic, or just Göktürkic, is the national language. Modern Göktürkic however is for the most part, very different from its ancient counterpart, which is known as Orkhon Turkic to differentiate, and Modern Göktürkic is based off of Chagatai Turkic. Prior to the Russian occupation, Göktürkic, or Chagatai Turkic, was the language spoken by most Central Asian Turkic civilizations, and is decended from the ancient Turkic language of the same name. During the Russian occupation, although Göktürkic was spoken by a handful of elite, and remained co-official in many of the oblasts, it lost its recognition and prestige in favor of Russian, however schools still maintained the right to teach in Göktürkic up until the 1980s, when a new law mandated that only Russian when in European Russia, native speakers of Ukrainian, German (Baltic German) and the Baltic peoples were able to retain education in their native languages. After Central Asian independence, Göktürkic again became one of the official languages alongside Russian, and the government actively promoted it revival and usage as the lingua franca, up until 2000 when the government nationalized Göktürkic and made it compulsory in schools. Göktürkic now spoken as the primary lingua franca. Göktürkic is currently written in the Modern Göktürk script and is a Cyrillic alphabet. But among Muslim Central Asians, it was written in a Perso-Arabic script. The Perso-Arabic script has seen revival among many companies, but can extensively be seen used in mosques, madrasahs and businesses that strictly abide by Islamic law A poll conducted in 2023 revealed that 36.4% of Central Asia citizens have a degree of proficiency in the Perso-Arabic script. Göktürkic is close to the Uzbek language, one of the local languages, as well as the Uyghur language spoken in neighboring China. Göktürkic is also co-official to Chinese in Tujue, one of the regional-level territorial administrations of China, directly bordering eastern Göktürkia.
Every State co-officializes its own native language in addition to Göktürkic. The locally-recognized official languages are Kazakh and Kyrgyzs (in Alash), Uzbek (in Bukhara, Khiva and Khwarazm), Karakalpak (in Karakalpakstan) and Turkmen (in Turkmenistan), They too, are written in the Cyrillic script. Of the native Turkic languages, Kazakh has has the largest amount of speakers, followed by Uzbek.
Additionally, Russian is also recognized as a co-official to Göktürkic, and is still widely-used in business, politics and education, and in many businesses - even more-so than Göktürkic. When the Central Asian Provisional Independent State was established, Russian was still the predominant public language used. Most of the foreign companies doing business in Göktürkia rely on Russian language, and even most users of technologies such as smartphone and gaming consoles use Russian-language versions, although recently more Göktürkic translations have become more available. Russian is still taught in schools, and almost all of the population speaks fluent Russian as an L3 or L2, making the country Russophone. Although no nationwide mandate makes Russian compulsory, but the overwhelming majority of schools in Göktürkia require students to take Russian in their early years, and in spite of attempts by hardliner Islamist groups to strip Russian from its status, even most madrasahs and mosques provide education and sermons in Russian.
Religion (PoD effected)[]
Pranidhi scene, temple 9 (Cave 20). Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves
Thanks to the Tang dynasty's victory at the Battle of Talas, Central Asia is 60% Buddhist, and 30% Muslim, 5% Christian Orthodox and 5% others. Religions in Central Asia is heavily Chinese-influenced thanks to the Central Asian civilizations having fell under Chinese influence for so long. Buddhism in Central Asia follows the Mahayana sections of Buddhism, incorporating elements of Chinese Folk Religion, Taoism and Tengrism (native Turco-Mongol religion), as many Tengrist Gods have been implemented as part of the Buddhist pantheon in Central Asia. It is known among the terms of Central Asian Buddhism or Turkic Buddhism.
The largest Buddhist monastery in Central Asia is the Talas Grand Temple and Monastery, one of the oldest-well preserved temples in Central Asia, right where the Tang dynasty defeated the Arab forces.
The Muslims of Central Asia as roughly split between Sunnis and Shiites, with southern Central Asia having a high concentration of Muslims. In what is OTL Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan, they are Sunnis but in what is OTE Uzbekistan, they are a mix of Shiites and Sunnis.
Additionally, and even smaller Orthodox Christian sect. exists in Central Asia, consisting mostly of ethnic Russians.
Economy[]
Gokturkia is considered an economic breadbasket and is rich in natural resources - especially crude oil and petrol, and is currently one of the world's highest oil-roducing nations. However, half of Gokturkia's petrol-industry is dominated by Chinese and Russian oil companies. Other than petrol, mining, tourism, agriculture and service form the next three largest sectors of the Gokturkian economy.
Kyrgyzsia, in addition to petroleum and natural gas reserves are substantial deposits of coal, gold, uranium, antimony, and other valuable metals. Metallurgy is an important industry, and the government hopes to attract foreign investment in this field, mostly from China, Japan, Russia and Persia. The government has actively encouraged foreign involvement in extracting and processing gold from the Kumtor Gold Mine and other regions. The country's plentiful water resources and mountainous terrain enable it to produce and export large quantities of hydroelectric energy.
In terms of its tourism, the Tian Shan Mountain Range is now a popular winter and ski resort destination, and attracts large amounts of tourists from Russia, as well as the other Shanghai Pact member states. The Caspian Sea is also a major tourist spot in Central Asia, as many fishing resort villages are dotted across the regions near the Caspian Sea. Additionally, many other lakes and rivers and mountain ranges within Central Asia attract tourists, where tourist communities exist along the Caspian and Aral Seas.
Agriculture is an important sector of the economy. By the early 1990s, the private agricultural sector provided between one-third and one-half of some harvests. In 2002, agriculture accounted for 35.6% of GDP and about half of employment. Central Asia's terrain is mountainous, which accommodates livestock raising, the largest agricultural activity, so the resulting wool, meat and dairy products are major commodities. Main crops include wheat, sugar beets, potatoes, cotton, tobacco, vegetables, and fruit. Agricultural processing is a key component of the industrial economy as well as one of the most attractive sectors for foreign investment.
A large part of Gokturkian wealth also comes via its membership in the Shanghai Pact, as well as being a partner state of the Four-Dragon Alliance. As a result, Gokturkians enjoy visa-free travel to countries such as China, Russia and Persia and vice versa, enjoying large transit systems with the countries, which encourages free-flow of goods and workforce manpower, as well as tourists.
Science and Technology[]
Major global technology companies operate in Göktürkia, however the great majority are foreign-owned companies. The largest of which are the Russian companies MTS, InterRAO and 2GIS, Chinese companies Huawei, Tencent, Eastern AirWave, Midea Group, Wei Construction, the Korean companies Hyundai and Samsung, and the Japanese companies of Nintendo and Honda, as well as Apple of California. This is thanks to a directive passed in 2000, by then-prime minister Oltas Tynyshbaev passed the Directive of Advancement of Sciences and Technology, continuing to pool money into STEM universities and studies and encouraging foreign investment into major cities in Göktürkia. In an agreement with Roscosmos, the Russian space program, Roscosmos agreed to hire native Central Asians to work as the Biakonour Cosmodrome.
In 2004, Prime Minister Tynyshbaev extended the push to advance scientific studies in Central Asia, and signed a new agreement to allow the Imperial Space Agency of China to also operate within the Biakonour Cosmodrome, an agreement that also involved the Russians, as Central Asia has now become part of the Chinese political sphere.
In ???, the Gokturkian government started construction the Bukhara Space Center, intentionally in the city of Bukhara, which during the medieval and ancient eras, was a center of Islamic sciences, education and trade. This was completed in ????.
Transit[]
Central Asia has an extensive transit system linking the country not only via cities in itself, but also international train transit systems to the surrounding countries of China, Russia, Tajikistan and Persia. The international transit system was project began by former prime minister Tynyshbaev, and was continued over the years, utilizing Japanese maglev technology. This system of transit has allowed wealth to smoothly pool into the country.
Random facts[]
Gun laws and gun culture[]
Central Asia is considered one of the more gun-friendly nations of Asia. Of a total population of approx. 58 million, there are 23 million gun owners in Central Asia. This is thanks to the hunting culture of Central Asians. However, unlike Japan (which has a higher gun ownership rate), guns are more associated with hunting and sporting in Central Asia, and sepearte licenses are issued for handguns for self-defense. Military-style rifles are not legal to own. However, self-defense in the home with a firearm is completely legal.