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Baku : Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, 2nd left, Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev, 2nd right and Georgia's Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili, right, inaugurate the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway, at a ceremony in Baku, Azerbaijan, Monday, Oct. 30, 2017. The leaders of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey inaugurated the railway line linking the Azerbaijani capital to Georgia's capital Tbilisi and to the city of Kars, in eastern Turkey.

The BTK Railway Is Turkey’s Silk Road Corridor To Central Asia

06/11/2017 by Andrew KORYBKO / 3 comments

By establishing a more robust presence in Central Asia, which is historically in Russia’s sphere of influence, Turkey would also be expanding the complex strategic interdependency that’s developed between Moscow and Ankara since their fast-moving rapprochement kicked off last summer.

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