The two nations partnered in creating the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA). Today, CICA has 22 member nations and has become one of the major forums and structures for guarding international peace and security across all of Asia.
The two nations are also close diplomatic partners in the Istanbul Process, which is trying to bring peace at last to Afghanistan.
The Turkish-Kazakh relationship took a giant leap forward when President Nursultan Nazarbayev visited Ankara in October 2012 and the two nations set up the High-Level Strategic Cooperation Council. The Council was followed by a Joint Strategic Planning Group. It held its first meeting on April 26 during Foreign Minister Davutoglu’s visit to Astana.
The JSPG is working on plans to expand a wide range of bilateral issues, “including the status and prospects of political dialogue, trade and economic, investment, military-technical, and cultural and humanitarian cooperation, inter-parliamentary relations and issues of cooperation in the security sphere.
Turkey is the first country to recognize the independence of Kazakhstan. Common historical, cultural and moral ties between Turkey and Kazakhstan are the basis of our rapidly developing relations. In the wake of Kazakhstan’s independence, the basis of our relations and cooperation in various areas has been regulated through many agreements and protocols signed with this country. Kazakhstan has become one of the most significant political and economic partners of Turkey in the region in accordance with the level of political relations we have achieved with Kazakhstan.