GRIGOROVA Darina - Doctor habilitat în istorie, profesor universitar, Universitatea „St. Kliment Ohridski” din Sofia (Sofia, Bulgaria).

Email: darina.grigorova@uni-sofia.bg

Keywords: Pan-Turkish-ism, Turkish world, Pan-Turkism, Turkic world, global Turkey, Turan, Pax Ottomana, Neo-Ottomanism, Strategic depth, Nazism, Kemalism, Russkiy Mir, Slavic World, Eastern War, Gülen [Hizmet] Network, Ecumenism, Vatican, Turkish-Islamic-Western synthesis

This article analyses the geopolitical strategy of the ‘Turkish world’. The author introduces the terms ‘Pan-Turkish-ism’ and ‘global Turkey’, a nation-centric doctrine that differs from the commonly accepted concepts of ‘Pan-Turkism’ and ‘Turkic world’, a multinational concept representing all Turkic peoples. The article examines the following aspects of ‘Pan-Turkish-ism’: the Neo-Ottomanism of the ‘Turkish World’, ‘the Turkish world’ versus ‘the Turkic world’ in the post-Soviet arena; the Gülen [Hizmet] Network: the globalist instrument of the ‘Pan-Turkish-ism’. On the basis of unpublished archival documents from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria, the author examines the Bulgarian diplomatic analysis of Russian-Turkish relations in the Balkans. Special attention is focused on History as the main ‘ideological’ tool of ‘Pan-Turkish-ism’ in Bulgaria and the Balkans. The idealization of the West is another characteristic feature of ‘Pan-Turkish-ism’, which, according to the author, can be defined as Turkish-Islamic-Western synthesis.