Turkish Reports: Saakashvili in Turkish Resort

President Saakashvili arrived in Turkey’s seaside resort, Bodrum, on April 25 for a holiday, The Journal of Turkish Weekly, Dogan News Agency (DHA) and CNN Türk reported.
 
MP Marika Verulashvili, a close associate of President Saakashvili, however, has strongly denied the report and told Civil.Ge on Sunday that the President was in Sofia participating in the energy summit and would return back to Tbilisi on April 26. The President’s press office was not available for comment. Energy summit in the Bulgarian capital was held on April 24-25.

The news about the Turkish media reports broke in Georgia last night in Giorgi Gachechiladze’s TV show on the Tbilisi-based Maestro TV, Cell No. 5. During the phone-in part of the show a viewer called and told the host about the reports in the Turkish media. The viewer also requested the host to call in the Marmara hotel in Bodrum, where, according to Dogan News Agency (DHA), President Saakashvili was staying. 

Then the TV show host made a phone call, allegedly, to the hotel and asked a woman on the other end of the line: “Can I talk with Georgian President?” “Its 2:30am, I think he is sleeping… You should call tomorrow morning,” a woman’s voice responded. 

After the phone call, Gachechiladze was chanting jubilantly: “He [Saakashvili] is there, we caught him.”

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