For Pan-Turkists, the Nazi German attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941 seemed to offer a chance for the liberation of Turkic peoples from Soviet domination. Consequently, they attempted to win over both the Turkish and the Nazi German governments to support their aims. Although active Pan-Turkist policies—entailing entry into the war on the German side—were intensively debated during 1941 and 1942, Turkey ultimately suppressed the Pan-Turkist movement for fear of alienating the Soviet neighbour and provoking Soviet retaliation. The Germans saw themselves confronted with collaboration offers by Pan-Turkist activists from the Soviet Union. Such collaboration provided the increasingly hard-pressed Germans with large numbers of volunteers, but indecision and the clashes of racist and imperialist Nazi ideologies with the interests of the peoples living under Soviet authority ultimately rendered this cooperation ineffective.

对于泛突厥主义者来说，1941 年 6 月纳粹德国对苏联的进攻似乎为突厥人民从苏联的统治下解放出来提供了机会。因此，他们试图赢得土耳其和纳粹德国政府支持他们的目标。尽管积极的泛突厥主义政策（包括德国方面参战）在 1941 年和 1942 年期间引起了激烈的争论，但土耳其最终还是镇压了泛突厥主义运动，因为担心疏远苏联邻国并引发苏联的报复。德国人发现自己面临着来自苏联的泛突厥主义活动分子的合作提议。这种合作为日益陷入困境的德国人提供了大量志愿者，但优柔寡断以及种族主义和帝国主义纳粹意识形态与生活在苏联统治下的人民利益的冲突最终导致这种合作无效。