Why Now Is The Time To Connect The Caspian To The World – Analysis

By Luke Coffey*

The presidents of Turkey, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan — Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Ilham Aliyev, and Serdar Berdimuhamedov — met last week in the Turkmen city of Awaza on the Caspian Sea coast, following a meeting of their foreign ministers over the summer.

Considering the economic and cultural links the...