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The bilateral and multilateral relations between the study of Turkic languages in Central Asia and Turkology studies in Turkey have recently reached a new dimension and a qualitative change. A Comparative Dictionary of Turkish Dialects, published in Ankara, heralded the new approach. Nearly 30 years after the publication of this dictionary, the Turkestan Declaration was accepted. Our article presents data on historical and applied dictionary studies, the common moral values of Turkic languages. After giving information about Turkish-Russian, Russian-Turkish, Kazakh-Russian, and Russian-Kazakh dictionaries published at the beginning of the 20th century, we suggest the necessity of republishing these dictionaries by completing their deficiencies. In addition, we examine the life and work of Şemsettin Sami, and Kazakh, Karakalpak, and the Russian works that refer to his Kamus-i Türkî dictionary. We focus on the importance of the work of scholars such as Şemsettin Sami, who made invaluable contributions to dictionary and text research in all Turkic languages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]