Is the new border crossing between Georgia and Turkey at Kartsakhi open to foreigners?

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Yes! It opened in October 2015: Border now open image

Official Georgian announcement.

I learned of this and borrowed the image from a post on Quora about interesting border crossings.

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I have not been able to find any restrictions on the border crossing by foreigners on the Kartsakhi.

Actually the most news on the subject I was able to find on Russian and Azeri news sites specifically with respect to the high speed rail project Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (Russian) where Kartsakhi would be the border crossing station for rail traffic on the line.

On top of this Kartsakhi is being viewed as a means to improve tourist flow into Georgia (Russian), so I don't see them imposing the restrictions on foreigners entering the country to locals only after it's fully open given this view.

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