This paper aims to analyze ever growing trend among Turkish nationalist toward creation of acommon literary language for all Turkic peoples. The issue is not indeed new. It may traceback to the nineteenth century, but got a great acceleration during the establishment ofTurkish Republic in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Although the modernizationmovement led by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and his comrades had a different agenda excludingand/or ignoring Turkic elements of Central Asia, this policy faced severe resistance fromtraditionalists, that is, from both Turkist-nationalists and Islamists since the verybeginning of the modernist reform movement