On our way out of the valley from
Borjomi to Gori we stopped for a nescafé. It was still early and
three men were sitting on the same terrace having breakfast. One of
them came up to us and asked about our journey and the bikes. He
appeared to be a Brit who worked on the finalization of a pipeline
from the oil fields in Azerbeidzjan, through Georgia and Turkey to
the Mediterenean. “A huge strategic project”, he said, which is
true obviously.
Then I asked him about the Iranian
oil-trucks that we saw hoisting themselves up over these high
mountain passes from Turkey into Georgia, did he know more about
them? As a matter of fact I thought it was a means of avoiding the
Iran oil boycot, and that the Turkish and Georgian governments
co-operated in that. But according to the Brit it is worse than that.
His answer came quick and without hesitatian: “Isis-oil. Everybody
knows, nobody does anything about it.” According to him the trucks
come from the areas in Iraque that are under Isis occupation, and
they take the oil through Syria and Turkey into Georgia. But, was my
remark, the Turks and..... “Well, the Turks don't like the Kurds,
so...”
It silenced me for a while. This man works in the
oil world, he is bound to have more information than most. Would this
be true, and it is not unreal to think it is?
Then here we are, witnessing how ugly and
dirty geo-politics can be.
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