Organization of Turkic States economy alone could enter top 10

AK Party Deputy Chairman and Head of Relations with Turkic States Prof. Dr. Kürşad Zorlu held a press conference in Ankara ahead of the 13th Council of Heads of State Summit of the Organization of Turkic States, sharing the 2025 data of OTS economies.

Speaking at the meeting held at the AK Party Congress Center, Prof. Dr. Kürşad Zorlu announced that the total national income of 8 states in 2025 was approximately 2.5 trillion dollars. Stating that goods and services trade together reached 1.5 trillion dollars when evaluated jointly, Zorlu expressed that this picture carries the Organization of Turkic States ecosystem as a single economy among the world's top 10 economies.

Zorlu noted that in the first 9 months of 2025, the average growth of OTS economies was around 6 percent, which corresponds to approximately twice the global growth. Expressing that intra-exports among OTS countries exceeded 37 billion dollars in 2025, but this constituted only 7 percent of total exports, Zorlu conveyed that they are trying to implement mechanisms to turn this potential into a joint economic capacity.

Important decisions are expected to be made and the term chairmanship is expected to pass to Türkiye at the 13th Leaders' Summit of the Organization of Turkic States to be held in Ankara under the theme "Turkic Century: Unity in Language, Thought, and Action".