The concept of a common Turkic political entity was proposed by Nursultan Nazarbayev, first president of Kazakhstan.

In March 1991, the official visit of the President of Turkey Turgut Özal took place at the invitation of Kazakhstan's then-President of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic Nursultan Nazarbayev.

During that visit, Turkey and Kazakhstan signed an agreement on cooperation in political, trade-economic, scientific-technical, ecological, cultural, social, communication and in other areas.

[3] On 15 March, the day after his arrival, he laid flowers at the Glory Memorial in the Park of 28 Panfilov Guardsmen and visited Medeu.

[3] In September 1991, the Presidents Nazarbayev and Özal signed a declaration in Ankara containing the principles and objectives of bilateral relations.

[2] In July 2006, the People's Republic of China, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia gathered in Astana to develop a transport corridor linking Central Asia with the South Caucasus and Western Europe that would increase the annual trade and cargo shipment capacity up to 30 million tons.