Immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Turkey looked to the newly-independent central Asian states in a mood of pan-Turkic romanticism. These ancestral homelands exercised a hold on Turkish imaginations, but today it is business opportunities, energy resources, and other practical matters rather than ethnic unity that are creating a loose Turkic “commonwealth.”
在苏联垮台后不久，土耳其以一种泛土耳其的浪漫主义情怀开始注意新独立的中亚国家。这些古老的国家对土耳其的想象持保留态度，但是现在商业机会、能源和其他实际问题而不是民族团结创造了一个松散的土耳其“联邦”。