Georgia
Georgia

Summary/Abstract: Georgia has been a strategically important neighbor of Turkey not only because at times it was a part of the Ottoman Empire with extensions of same ethnic origins over a wide range of territory on both sides of the borders, but more so because of Turkey’s developing relations to its East after the end of the Cold War and Georgia serving as a gateway to Central Asia and Azerbaijan, as well as to the Russian Federation. Particularly because of its closed borders with Armenia through which the only railway connection with former Soviet lands was cut off, this neighbor has acquired additional importance.

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