[1][2] On 3 October 2009 during the Nakhchivan Sumkit, the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev proposed the creation of an international research center tasked with conducting research on the Turkic world.

On 23 August 2012, it was agreed for the organization to become international institution during the second summit of the Turkic Council in Bishkek.

[2] In 2018, Hungary was granted observer status in the academy during the 6th Turkic Council summit.

[3] Old Turkic phrase is changed later to "𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜:𐰀𐰴𐰓𐰢𐰃", while the term "International" dropped from English part with the 2023 logo.

The Academy published an academic journal "Altaistics, Turkology and Mongolistics" quarterly between 2013 and 2020.