The International Organization of Turkic Culture (Turkish: Uluslararası Türk Kültürü Teşkilatı, Türksoy) is an international culturalorganization of countries with Turkic populations, speaking languages belonging to the Turkic language family. Other than being an abbreviation of the former official name Türk Kültür ve Sanatları Ortak Yönetimi ('Joint Administration of Turkic Culture and Arts'), Türksoy is also a compound noun in Turkish, made up of the words Türk (Turk/ic) and soy(ancestry).
The General Secretary of Türksoy is Dusen Kaseinov, former Minister of Culture of Kazakhstan. Türksoy has its headquarters in Ankara, Turkey.