Russia’s neo-Eurasianism movement holds that the peoples of the Eurasian steppe included not just the Russians but also the Turkic peoples of Central Asia, meaning that Russia is instead culturally closer to Asia than to Western Europe. As Turkey has failed to align with Europe in a formal way, the idea of Turkey as a dominant actor in Eurasia is catching on. But are Russia’s “Eurasia” and Turkey’s “Eurasia” the same thing?
