The President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is making an official go to to Serbia. The Turkish president arrived yesterday, Thursday, night in Belgrade accompanied by his spouse. He was acquired on the airport by the president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic. The official welcoming ceremony will happen at this time at midday outdoors the federal government constructing “Palace of Serbia” in New Belgrade.
“Welcome to Serbia, pricey good friend. Your go to is one other alternative to additional strengthen our pleasant relations and cooperation. I consider that in your keep in Belgrade, we are going to work collectively to enhance the financial, cultural and political ties between our nations,” wrote Aleksandar Vucic in an Instagram publish.
That is Erdogan's fourth go to to Serbia since 2017. Financial points are anticipated to dominate the assembly between the 2 presidents, whereas a gathering of the Supreme Cooperation Council will even happen. The 2 presidents will deal with a convention of Serbian and Turkish businessmen going down in Belgrade. Lots of of Turkish corporations are lively in Serbia within the textile, automotive, development, banking and tourism sectors.
Political points will even be on the agenda of the Vucic-Erdogan talks, and particularly the state of affairs in Bosnia-Herzegovina, since Ankara appears disturbed by the separatist tendencies expressed by the Bosnian Serb chief Milorad Dodik. Aleksandar Vucic has for years maintained pleasant relations with Erdogan whom he usually describes as “a honest good friend of Serbia”.
Turkey's president imposed himself because the moderator of Belgrade's relations with the Bosnian Muslim neighborhood in southern Serbia. Erdogan's interventions within the rapid previous labored as a catalyst in order that there can be no issues within the area of Sandzak the place the Muslim inhabitants is a majority. In spite of everything, within the final eight years, the political representatives of the Bosnian Muslims additionally take part in all of the governments in Serbia. However, Belgrade usually seems keen to fulfill Ankara's requests for the extradition of wished individuals. So in 2017 and regardless of worldwide reactions, he determined to extradite to Turkey the Kurd Cevdet Ayaz whom a Turkish courtroom sentenced to fifteen years in jail.
Throughout Erdogan's earlier go to to Belgrade, in September 2022, Aleksandar Vucic had expressed Serbia's curiosity in shopping for Turkish weapons programs and particularly the Bayraktar unmanned aerial automobile. A yr later, nevertheless, and after the sale of the particular plane to Kosovo was introduced, Belgrade appeared to surrender on this buy.
The difficulty of Kosovo is a “thorn” within the relations between Belgrade and Ankara.
Turkey is the primary nation to acknowledge Kosovo as an unbiased state and has been arming its armed forces for the previous two years, a proven fact that causes intense resentment in Belgrade.
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