After graduating from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi University and receiving Ph.D. in History, Zurab Batiashvili worked in the Georgian Parliament, the European Department of the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Turkish Embassy in Tbilisi. At present he works in the Council of Security and Crisis Management of Georgia.
He has published the following books: Turkish Armed Forces (2000), Cappadocia, Georgians in the Period of the Ottoman Trebizond (2010), The Origin of the Empire of Trebizond (2008) and The Empire of Trebizond in the 13th Century 92013).
