22:05 02/23/2017

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Vladimir Sudar

Turkey its influence in Serbia achieveds the most in Old Raska with the Muslim Bosniaks, Presevo and Bujanovac, as well as in Kosovo and Metohija, and even in Belgrade there is a Turkish school.

Turkey is among the most agile countries that are lobbying for membership of Kosovo and Metohija in UNESCO and it is part of their strategy Neo-Ottomanism, warned the Serbian Ambassador to UNESCO Darko Tanaskovic.

For the uninitiated, Neo-Ottomanism is a nationalist, Islamist and panturkistička ideology that advocates the restoration of the influence of the Ottoman Empire, which stretched in what is now the Republic of Turkey and in the region of Transcaucasia, Central Asia, the Middle East and the Balkan Peninsula.

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Historian Dr Aleksandar Rakovic agrees with Tanaskovićevom assessment and added that the Turkish concept of Neo-Ottomanism evolved Professor Ahmet Davutoglu, a former prime minister of Turkey, the past few decades.

According to him, the Neo-Ottomanism is a political and cultural concept of establishing "custody of the former Ottoman territory in the Balkans, and especially over the nations that Heritage Ottoman tradition, such as in the Balkans - Bosnians and Albanians."

"In a series of public statements of senior Turkish politicians often emphasized the unity of Turks and Bosniaks on the one hand, and the Turks and Albanians on the other, and send the message that Turkey will never leave you in the lurch his legacy in the Balkans and they are, how they feel, Bosnian and Albanian people. In this connection, they will always support their political, cultural and religious intentions and if there are some differences with neighboring nations, Turkey will always look to be on the side of those he left behind on the Balkan Peninsula, "said Rakovic for Sputnik .

As a reminder, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the last five years, declared that his Alija Izetbegovic "left Bosnia at the behest" and threatened to "whoever touches the Bosniaks have a hundred million Turks against himself" with a warning that the Turkish military ship could sail into the Neum (town in Bosnia and Herzegovina on the Adriatic coast).

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When it comes to Kosovo, Erdogan has repeatedly emphasized that Turkey supported and will continue to support the southern Serbian province, especially the "famous" statement in Prizren which after clumsily tried to deny - that is Kosovo's second country.

Former Prime Minister of Turkey and the main ideologist of Neo-Ottomanism Ahmet Davutoglu was in Banja Luka last year made several statements which have seriously disturbed the Christian population in BiH. "The Turks have always been here and will remain in BiH", "Bosnia's pretty much what Alija Izetbegovic left" and "Banjaluka can never be separated from Sarajevo," the statement Davutoglu that raised the temperature in Banja Luka.

Neo-Ottomanism ideology advocated by Erdogan and the society around him largely diverge from tradition of secular Turkey founded by Kemal Pasha Ataturk, a Rakovic says that Erdogan will ignore the secular legacy of the creator of the Turkish nation and will use it as much as he needed.

"Turkey's policy will be in line with the ideology and ideas Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and one of these ideas is Neo-Ottomanism, which refers not only to the Balkan Peninsula but also in the Muslim countries of the former Soviet Union, and even the Crimea. In doing so, one must bear in mind that at this moment, when Russia play Turkey know that the stronger, the role of Turkey in these areas is less. But that does not mean they will not in any other time of the measurement of power become greater. Here in our country we can expect that Turkish support for Albanian separatists and Bosniaks in BiH to be strong, with what Bosniaks and Albanians have the support of the US and British agencies and their policies, "said Rakovic.

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Even now, if there was a shift of US policy, and it would take several years, believes Rakovic, you separate the American influence in the Balkans would probably adapt to the British and the Tramp waiting for an opportunity to step down and return to the old policy of klintonističku led.

"As for the Balkans, not only about the Neo-Ottomanism, but also on the support to provide them with Great Britain, which is traditionally, and also the United States, and now we will see to what extent this support will remain. But until now it was so, so that the system of mutual communication which was against the interests of the Serbian people and that was very stable in this area, only now begun to distort, "estimates Rakovic.

According to him, Turkey its influence in Serbia achieved the most in Stara Raska with the Muslim Bosniaks, Presevo and Bujanovac, as well as in Kosovo and Metohija, and even in Belgrade there is a Turkish school.

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Russians have a schizophrenia type problem:
They must make Turkey (wnabe old ottoman empire V2.0) friendly to have access to Mediterranean from Black Sea, while nobody must notice this their move.
Turkey never was their friend for the same reason. Their centuries long invasions of Europe failed more or less where I live. Because of us.
Both want Balkans for themselves together with Adriatic Sea.
As Itlay, Austria, Germany, Hungary, Serbia (sorry to those I forgot) do.

Again, it is not going to happen.

IZAKOVIC