"A Caucasian cheese circle
May 22nd 2008 | GYUMRI AND KARS
From The Economist print edition
The secret diplomacy of cheesemaking
ON AN icy February morning a clutch of Turks and Armenians huddled in a hotel in Kars, with Turkish intelligence officials looking on. On May 14th their secret, a giant round of cheese, was unveiled in Gyumri, over the sealed border in Armenia. Under the label of “Caucasian cheese”, the yellow slab symbolises reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia, and across the Caucasus."
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