On June 18, 2018 - Botagoz Rakisheva, Ph.D. in Sociology, co-director of the Public Opinion Research Institute, made a presentation TURKBAROMETER - 2017: the main results of a cross-country sociological study (Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan) at the III Forum of the Humanities "Great Steppe" of the International Turkic Academy. The report presents the main results of the international sociological study "Turkbarometer" of the International Turkic Academy, conducted jointly with the Public Opinion Research Institute (Astana, Kazakhstan). The main goal of the research project is to measure a number of indicators of humanitarian cooperation of Turkic-speaking countries. The first wave of the survey was conducted in September-November 2017 in six capitals of the Turkic-speaking countries: Baku, Astana, Bishkek, Ashgabat, Ankara, Tashkent. Respondents are residents of the state-forming Turkic ethnic groups from 18 years of age and older. In each country, 500 respondents were interviewed. The total sample was 3,000 respondents. The survey in the countries was conducted by professional sociological organizations.

The main conclusions of the project are that residents of the cities of the studied countries have a positive attitude to the idea of developing cooperation between the countries of the Turkic-speaking world. For many respondents, Turkic peoples evoke fraternal feelings, and joint projects have positive assessments. The population of the Turkic-speaking countries is well informed about each other and welcomes the economic, scientific, technical, sports and cultural cooperation between the countries.