FT.com / UK
Turkey says : "‘Europe does not understand the sacrifices that Turkey has made’
By Delphine Strauss
Published: July 20 2010 20:35 | Last updated: July 20 2010 20:35
The presence of prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Srebrenica this month to commemorate the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims was a sign of Turkey’s growing involvement in the fraught field of Balkan diplomacy, writes Delphine Strauss.
In the past year, Ankara has helped mediate between Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina and to reconcile rival factions in Serbia’s majority-Muslim Sandzak region. It also helped persuade Belgrade – where Mr Erdogan has just signed trade deals and a visa exemption – to issue in March its first formal condemnation of the Srebrenica killings."
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