Earlier, Sergei Lavrov recalled that the Turkic Council is an interstate organization. For membership in it, it is necessary that the dominant population is Turkic. The minister stressed that he does not see any problems for Russia to join it despite this. According to him, the organization is ready to accept states where there is a Turkic-speaking population, but does not dominate. The Russian Foreign Minister stressed that the Turkic-speaking peoples in the country are not isolated. This was reported by RIA Novosti.

The Turkic Council currently includes five of the seven now independent Turkic states: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. The goal of the organization is to develop ties between fraternal countries on the basis of voluntariness, respect and consensus.