Window on Eurasia reports [1] that “there appears to be a chance that Turkey, despite denials by its officials, might break the embargo against recognition [of Abkhazia] because of Ankara’s desire to play a greater role in the Caucasus region, its own long-standing experience as the only country to recognize the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus, and the influence of its own Abkhaz and Circassian communities.”
Turkey: Next Country to Recognize Abkhazia?
· Written by Veronica Khokhlova
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