Turkish Foreign Policy and Regional Geopolitics
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hyperman
INT'L MOD
This is in Bosnia right? Where is the Graveyard located? Bosnian Authorities should be able to intervene.
Turkey can provide diplomatic support.
Unfortunately Turkey has a weaker hand in Bosnia than it does in Kosovo. Due to a series of moves that were made in 2004 when the Bosnia Peacekeeping mission was transitioned from a NATO mission to a EU and UN mission. Turkey was still included in the EU mission, but the mechanism is weakened b/c Turkey is not an EU member so doesn't have much say in the mission.
But Turkey can still manuever things on the diplomatic side.
Foinikas
Elite Member
This doesn't show anything like this. It looks like a memorial prayer for the Orthodox dead of Srebrenica.
hyperman
INT'L MOD
Why is there a Orthodox "memorial service" in a Muslim graveyard where they are sticking Crosses into the ground?
Everyone know that the different communities have different graveyards, there are no orthodox buried there. They are desecrating Bosniak graves in an area after they drove off the Bosnians/Muslims living there.
They don't allow people to go back to Srebenica and Harass people living there and Brcko. Its clear what their intentions are. They want to remove the Bosnians living there and then connect Srpska to Serbia.
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Any Kurdish outfit will never see a ban. These people fought against Arabs during Arab Israel war along with Israeli soldiers. Plus, the US never neutralizes these groups. West time after time provided weapons to Kurdish groups in the name of security.
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Foinikas
Elite Member
That's what puzzles me. I don't know what's going on there,I do know there Orthodox who were killed in Srebrenica(and supposedly some also counted among the dead Muslims),
but I don't understand. Maybe,maybe they went for a memorial service of the dead in the area,if they think there were dead who were not recognized or found and they went there for that reason. That's my thought.
If they could connect RS to Serbia,I don't think a few Bosnian Muslims would be their problem. They can't. It's part of bigger deals.
hyperman
INT'L MOD
Randomly going into a muslim graveyard for the service of unknown Orthodox dead supposedly? Looks to me like they are taking over the graveyard, sticking crosses into the dirt and then got some priest going around probably doing some "purification" ritual.
Foinikas
Elite Member
I don't know,I can't tell for sure,but service for the dead in a town where they died can happen. I don't know where they have a cemetery for the dead Serbs of Srebrenica.
hyperman
INT'L MOD
Well Milorad Dodik has been trying his best. They need Brcko to do it. I think they are just waiting for the right opportunity and support from Serbia.
Every few months they rabble rouse over it. I hear of some incident in the news, then tensions calm down, they seem to be looking for a reason and opportunity to annex Brcka, they have already changed the demographics there from like 19% to a plurality in 2013 around 48% and its probably gone higher since then, they just haven't managed to break the status quo .
Foinikas
Elite Member
Brcko was always a problem because of the Croat majority. But again,there are too many countries opposing a potential union of RS with Serbia. The big question is how come the Romanians and Moldovans haven't united yet and how come the majority of countries don't encourage such a thing.
Claudius
Registered Member
Moldova is to poor and it would only be a liability for Romania, who allready has economic difficulties.
hyperman
INT'L MOD
I don't think Croats are a majority there. The City itself used to be Bosniak majority, the Serbs got rid of the Croats and the Bosniaks in the border region as well as turn the city into a Serbian Plurality.
The only issue for the RS people is whether Croatia would intervene if they did try to annex the district into RS.
Foinikas
Elite Member
The important Operation Corridor in '92.
Anyway,I don't see any reason this has to do with Turkey. It's not like BiH is under the custody of the Ottomans or something
