since i got back from kazakhstan, i've been spending all this time visiting pan-turkic nationalist web sites. the sites are almost all in turkish, which suggests where the pan-turkic push is really centered. (another example: try switching the language from turkish to something else using the drop-down menu at the upper right of this page)
and then there's all the videos. i like the below one. even though it is in turkish, i can understand it pretty well:
my favorite part is the graphic that starts around 3:53 where an expanding EU, russian federation, china and america (which seems to own all of north africa, the entire middle east and southeast asia) surround and then gobble up the hapless un-unified turkic states. some of the other videos seem to want to include turkic speaking areas of russia, china, iran, iraq, the caucasus and eastern europe. this one implies that mongolia would be in on the deal (though mongolians are not turkic. i think my searches may have strayed into turanism).
anyway, i'm not sure why i continue to be so fascinated by this stuff. most of the pan-turkic videos are little more than an exhaustive list of every turkic ethnic group and flag, usually set to traditional turkish or martial music.
i'm also partial to all the cheesy wolf imagery. those pan-turkic folks really do like wolves.
