Abkhazian President Returns from Turkey

President Sergei U. Bagapsh of Abkhazia has completed his first state visit to Turkey. During the visit Bagapsh sought to improve economic relations between the two countries and also called on the Abkhaz living in Turkey to return to their homeland to assist in its development. (Roughly 500,000 Abkhaz live in Turkey, a number nearly three times the size of Abkhazia's estimated current population.) More here.