There’s a phrase that keeps turning up in the official verbiage of the Organization of Turkic States - "fraternal peoples," "brotherly nations," "our common roots" - and until recently, the content of the rhetoric was just that. Culture, heritage, a shared linguistic family from the Bosphorus to the steppes of Central Asia. What was assembled in Baku on Thursday was somewhat more down-to-earth.

The second meeting of OTS heads of government and vice presidents took place at the historic Gulustan Palace and included the prime ministers of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, as well as Türkiye's vice president, the prime minister of Northern Cyprus, Turkmenistan's deputy cabinet chairman, and OTS Secretary General Kubanychbek Omuraliev. The agenda included investment, transport corridors, digital infrastructure, energy, and artificial intelligence. The joint statement was adopted. And the host country specified the value of its role in these countries in numbers.

Azerbaijan's Prime Minister Ali Asadov addressed the meeting, saying, "Our total investments in OTS member states now exceed 21 billion U.S. dollars. Joint investment funds were created with Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. Several projects are currently underway, and more are in preparation. The........

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