Can Turkey Save a Fading Georgia?
Neal Ascherson, Guardian | September 30, 2009
As a younger Georgian politician rises in the form of Irakli Alasania, the US are finally losing patience with Mikheil Saakashvili. ++ The Georgian President fails to recognize that both South Ossetia and Abkhazia have effectively been independent for 16 years and now Venezuela has joined in recognizing the breakaway republics. ++ Could Turkey hold the key as it hopes to gain influence through its local ethnic population? ++ “Maybe Georgian helplessness suits the big powers[…]it certainly suits Russia.”
