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This article aims to bring the argument that the integration process of the Organization of Turkic States should progress with the strategy of priority sector for cooperation and institutionalization up for discussion in the context of neofunctionalism. Considering that sector-priority cooperation steps will pave the way for institutionalization and integration, the problem of the study is which sectors can be primarily a catalyst and how much. In this context, the potential contributions of the integration process to be followed with a focus on agriculture, defence and energy as today’s strategic sectors is tried to be revealed within the scope of cointegration econometric analysis by assessing with panel data method the relationship between the annual data of the member and observer countries covering the period of 1995-2019 in the relevant sectors and the growth data. As a result of this econometric modelling, it has been seen that the cooperation and integration steps to be followed in the field of agricultural incomes, defence expenditures and energy respectively in terms of the magnitude of the effects will contribute to both the development levels of the countries and the institutionalization and deepening of the Organization of Turkish States.

Along with Türkiye, there are languages of Azerbaijan in the South Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia that comes from the same UralAltaic language family and these languages are all related to each other. Together with this language union, the process of Cooperation Summits of Turkic-Speaking Countries started in 1992 to ensure cultural unity and solve economic and political problems by coming together. This process transformed into the Turkic Council in 2009, and the foundation of organizational integration was laid. However, the expectation in the relations among these states is not just a common language or historical or cultural integration but a common political and economic decoupling. At this point, full organizational integration has only occurred with the Organization of Turkic States in 2021. The most important development affecting the process leading to the organizational integration in question is the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. The conclusion of this war in favour of Azerbaijan, together with the Organization of Turkic States, has become a major step towards Turkic integration. Even though the subject of this study is the Organization of Turkic States, the main purpose of the study is to examine how the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War affected this organizational integration.