{"id":32041,"date":"2020-10-15T14:54:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T18:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=32041"},"modified":"2020-10-15T14:54:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T18:54:53","slug":"georgia-kowtows-to-turkey-in-azerbaijans-war-on-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=32041","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Kowtows to Turkey in Azerbaijan&#8217;s War on Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Republic of Georgia&#8217;s Concessions to the Azerbaijani War Effort Against Armenians<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Turkish-F-16s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"770\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32043\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Turkish-F-16s.jpg 1170w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Turkish-F-16s-300x197.jpg 300w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Turkish-F-16s-1024x674.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Turkish-F-16s-768x505.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\" \/><\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h6><strong>By David Davidian<\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><em><strong>The Republic of Georgia\u2019s airspace is used by Turkey and Israel to support Azerbaijan in its war against the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia.<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12779\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wgi.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Picture1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12779 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wgi.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Picture1.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 918px) 100vw, 918px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wgi.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Picture1.jpg 918w, https:\/\/wgi.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Picture1-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wgi.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Picture1-768x409.jpg 768w\" alt=\"Flight from Libya to Baku\" width=\"918\" height=\"489\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12779\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flight from Libya to Baku, Azerbaijan, September 30, 2020 Using Georgian Airspace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h6>One need only review how many Turkish military transport flights from Libya, Turkey, and those transporting Syrian Jihadists are archived on sites such as flightradar24 (see accompanying images and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MuradGazdiev\/status\/1312748815288545282\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u>sample)<\/u><\/a>\u00a0using Georgian airspace. Some flights are taking place as you read this article. We can add to this caravan of flights supporting Azerbaijan, Israeli military re-supply flights between <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/artak2020\/status\/1311279507639238657\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u>Israel military airbases to Baku, Azerbaijan.<\/u><\/a>\u00a0While official Tbilisi claims it has not taken sides in this conflict, this evidence of Georgia\u2019s permissiveness has allowed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/azerbaijan-armenia-karabakh-israel-cluster-bombs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u>Israeli cluster bombs<\/u><\/a>\u00a0to kill Armenian civilians.<\/h6>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/agenda.ge\/en\/news\/2020\/3025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u>Georgia prevented<\/u><\/a>\u00a0Armenians from its Akhalkalaki region from sending used tires into Armenia to insulate military posts, yet allowed the Turkish military free access over its sovereign territory.<\/h6>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ASBMilitary\/status\/1312393704225886209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u>Videos<\/u><\/a>\u00a0show Bayraktar truck convoys escorted through Georgia towards Azerbaijan. True, Bayraktar is a transport company, but Georgian police escorted these trucks. The Turkish Bayraktar company manufactures kamikaze UAVs that are killing Armenian fighters and civilians. How did Turkish F-16s fly into Azerbaijan? I assure readers it was not over Iran or Russia. These F-16s are used against Armenians.<\/h6>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12785\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12785\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wgi.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Picture2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12785 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wgi.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Picture2.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wgi.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Picture2.jpg 750w, https:\/\/wgi.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Picture2-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/wgi.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Picture2-713x1024.jpg 713w\" alt=\"A Turkish military flight landing at Yevlakh military airpor\" width=\"750\" height=\"1077\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12785\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flight from Libya to Baku, Azerbaijan, September 30, 2020 Using Georgian Airspace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h6>Georgia replaced one master, Russia, with another, Turkey &amp; Azerbaijan. Thanks to Saakashvili\u2019s foreign policy \u201cgenius,\u201d Georgian Adjara and its regional capital Batumi have been subjected to overwhelming Turkish influence. Batumi, Georgia, is considered a Turkish \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/jamestown.org\/program\/defying-georgia-turkey-gradually-cultivates-its-influence-in-separatist-abkhazia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u>domestic<\/u><\/a>\u201d flight. Azerbaijan is Georgia\u2019s largest direct foreign investor. Georgia put itself in a position where it could not refuse Turkish aircraft access to its airspace. Any sovereignty Georgia thought it was accumulating by ejecting Russian influence has been replaced by bowing down to Turkish and Azerbaijani demands. It would not be surprising if Turkey never asked permission to use Georgian airspace, considering Georgian airports are managed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TAV_Airports_Holding\"><u>TAV<\/u><\/a>\u00a0(Turkish Airport Holdings).<\/h6>\n<h6>Further, controversy continues in Georgia, leading up to their elections about an <a href=\"https:\/\/jam-news.net\/georgia-azerbaijan-david-gareji-territory-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u>illegal transfer<\/u><\/a>\u00a0of 3,500 hectares of Georgian land to Azerbaijan.<\/h6>\n<h6>Armenia\u2019s North-South Highway Project will span the entire length of Armenia, from the Iranian border to Armenia\u2019s north-west border with Georgia. Locals have reported (no real estate documents can be obtained) that Turks have acquired (purchased, rented) swath of lands near where that highway would enter the Samtskhe-Javakheti region of Georgia, interfering with the functioning of this highway.<\/h6>\n<h6>Georgia will probably not escape diplomatic repercussions for having to bow to a new master. While Georgia touts\u00a0its wine as the oldest globally, flies the EU flag next to its crusader national flag, accepts grants and loans from the West as long as it stays anti-Russian, its national sovereignty is being subordinated to the demands\u00a0from its two Turkic neighbors; Turkey and Azerbaijan. For a state that has placed Orthodox Christianity as a centerpiece of his national ethos, Georgia has allowed Turkey to use its airspace to transport radical Jihadists to fight Armenians.<\/h6>\n<h6>Georgia had better look in the mirror while it still owns one. Unfortunately, Georgia appears to be in <a href=\"https:\/\/eurasianet.org\/georgians-wary-of-turkeys-rising-influence-in-batumi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u>too deep<\/u><\/a>\u00a0into Turkey\u2019s neo-Ottoman plans to re-establish its sovereignty.<\/h6>\n<h6>Yerevan, Armenia<\/h6>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11849\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11849\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wgi.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/David-Davidian.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11849\" src=\"https:\/\/wgi.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/David-Davidian.png\" alt=\"David Davidian\" width=\"123\" height=\"129\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11849\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Davidian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h6><strong><b>Author: David Davidian <\/b><\/strong>(<em><i>Lecturer at the American University of Armenia. He has spent over a decade in technical intelligence analysis at major high technology firms. \u00a0H<\/i><\/em><em><i>e resides in <\/i><\/em><em><i>Yerevan, Armenia).<\/i><\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wgi.world\/republic-of-georgia-s-concessions-to-the-azerbaijani-war-effort-against-armenians\/\">https:\/\/wgi.world\/republic-of-georgia-s-concessions-to-the-azerbaijani-war-effort-against-armenians\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republic of Georgia&#8217;s Concessions to the Azerbaijani War Effort Against Armenians<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}