The book “Turkic Republics in the Twenty-Seventh Year of Independence”was edited by Ayse Colpan Yildiz and Murat Yılmaz. As one of the mostrecent works in this field, this book, with its interesting range of contents,is very important for the Turkic world. It represents an important continuationof various academic studies and publications on Turkey and theindependent Turkic Republics.