Temur Batirashvili, father of Tarkhan Batirashvili, smokes during an interview at his home in the village of Birkiani in the Pankisi Gorge, Georgia, May 19, 2016. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili
BIRKIANI, Georgia/MOSCOW (Reuters) - In 2012, Tarkhan Batirashvili set off from his home in ex-Soviet Georgia on a journey that would pave the way to last week's suicide attack on Istanbul airport.
"He told me: 'Father, I should find my own way in life. This country does not need me," Batirashvili's 73-year-old father, Temur, told Reuters, recalling his son's decision to leave their ethnic Chechen village and head for Turkey, then on to Syria.
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