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Thursday, January 08, 2009

Turkey’s Circassians Press Ankara to Reopen Sea Route to Abkhazia

"Turkey’s Circassians Press Ankara to Reopen Sea Route to Abkhazia
January 08, 2009

WINDOW ON EURASIA
Paul Goble

Vienna, January 8 – Leaders of the six-million-strong Circassian community of Turkey met with that country’s President Abdulla Gul this week to press for the reopening of ferry service from Trabzon to the Abkhaz port of Sukhumi, a link that was suspended in 2006 when the CIS imposed an embargo on that breakaway republic."

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