Each society, realizing the greatness of its mother tongue, strives to preserve it. Today the language planning is one of the leading studies on this topic. This paper analyzes forms of language planning which affected Turkish people after the Soviet era, including alphabet and literacy reforms, new orthographic conventions, the development of a literary language, standardization efforts, specific areas of language use, and the official status of the language. It also attempts to identify the factors which rendered this nation’s language a symbolic official language. At the same time, attention will be paid to the issue of a common Turkish language. Today, there are about 30 modern Turkic nations formed from ancient Turkic peoples and currently speaking modern Turkic languages. It is necessary to protect the modern Turkic peoples and unite their efforts, to organize their joint activities within the framework of modern Turkish civilization for the survival of the Turkic peoples. And the cooperation between them should be organized on the basis of the concept of the great thinker of the Turkic peoples Ismail Gasprali: "Unity in language, thought, work!". It is necessary to start with the solution of the problem of unity in the language and to create a common Turkish language for this. The solution of the common Turkish language issue is also ambiguous. When some suggest to create this language from the common Turkish words, others support to choose the language of a Turkic state. The article will analyze both the policy of the independent Turkic states and the issue of a common Turkish language.