Nargiza Umarova
On March 15, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation organized the shipment of eight cargo exports via the Lapis Lazuli Corridor to TΓΌrkiye, Saudi Arabia, the United States, Australia, and the European Union (Ariana News, March 15). The Lapis Lazuli Corridor, which runs from Afghanistan to Europe, was launched in 2018 and is of particular interest to TΓΌrkiye, one of the project’s initiators (CGTN, December 14, 2018).
Ankara views this initiative as an opportunity to diversify export routes to Afghanistan and other South Asian countries while effectively realizing its own transit potential. Turkish transport policy designates the Lapis Lazuli Transit Corridor as an additional route of the Middle Corridor (Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accessed March 31). Running from the Afghan border towns of Aqina and Torghundi through Turkmenistan, the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, it provides access to the Eurozone via TΓΌrkiye’s land and sea borders.
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