TURKEY MIGHT RECOGNIZE ABKHAZIA AND SOUTH OSSETIA’S INDEPENDENCE

Tert.am
15:27 ~U 23.12.09

A diplomatic scandal is getting ready to erupt between Tbilisi and
Ankara. The reason? Abkhazian president Sergei Bagapsh’s visit to
Turkey, which will take place in the coming days. An issue which
Georgia’s foreign minister intends to raise with Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Turkey to Georgia Ertan Tezgor, reports
the Russian daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta ("Independent Newspaper").

Vice Speaker of Georgia’s Parliament, opposition member Paata Davitaya,
stated that Bagapsh’s visit abroad is forbidden "when the ethnic
cleansing of Georgians continues in Abkhazia."

Georgia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs quite quickly responded to the
possible development of Abkhazia-Turkey relations, verbally expressing
his dissent to Ankara.