Neo-Osmanism and Western politics in the Balkans
Sandzak and Vojvodina are areas in Serbia where Western gentlemen who want to rule the world according to the Machiavellian principle of "divide and conquer" attempt to destroy the world according to their bad geopolitical habit. They're trying to eat - in the sense that they have long been plotting a "game with knives", around which is the territory of Serbia. What the West did with Yugoslavia in the first half of the 90's, is not enough for him.Candidate historical Sci., Researcher, Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences Mikhail Yambaev считаетthat Vojvodina and Sandzak, as well as Kosovo, are integral parts of Serbia under the constitution. Political scientist says:
“Vojvodina is not a disputed territory, but the theme of Voevodina separatists will be fueled by certain forces within the EU, and first of all, the United States.”
In the same way, the topic of Sanjak is “heated”. Separatist trends in this area
“Were outlined at the beginning of the 90s, when Bosnia and Herzegovina were separated from Yugoslavia, due to the fact that many Muslims live in Sandzak, or, as they are called today,“ Bosniaks ”or“ Bosnians ”.
The analyst expects surges of separatist sentiment in these two regions of Serbia.
In the meantime, the essence of the matter, from the Turkish side under the guise of fraternal commercial activity in the Balkans, there is a real expansion.
Elena Guskova, director of the Center for the Study of the Modern Balkan Crisis of the Institute of Slavonic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, believes that Turkey is strengthening not only economic influence in this region, but also strategic. In addition, Turkey was one of the first countries to recognize the independence of Kosovo and became its patron. Beginning with the 1990s, and especially in the 21st century, пишет E. Guskova, the theme of the revival of Turkish influence in the Balkans has become a favorite topic of Turkish scholars and politicians. Not without reason, at his speech in Sarajevo in 2010, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu spoke of the Ottoman occupation of Bosnia as a history that needs to be updated. The revitalization of Turkish politics in the Balkans is connected precisely with the name of this minister, who was appointed to the post in the spring of 2009. Since then, activity has been indicated in all directions: diplomatic, economic, cultural.
Elena Guskova notes that, starting from 2009, the Balkans were invariably present in the schedules of visits by the country's top officials - Davutoglu himself, Prime Minister R. T. Erdogan, Turkish President Abdullah Gul, as well as parliamentarians and military officials. In 2009-2011 These individuals visited Albania, Montenegro, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, and, of course, Kosovo. The Turkish delegations will certainly include businessmen who sign agreements on economic cooperation and investment. Sign - and then diligently perform.
From 2003 to 2010, for example, the volume of foreign trade between Tirana and Ankara grew 10 times: from 35 to 350 million dollars. Free trade agreements were concluded with the states of the region. Turkish firms built roads in Albania, a factory in Macedonia, an airport in Pristina.
As for the strategy, Turkey works with the political elites of the Balkan countries, invites them to participate in joint political programs and discussions of European and Asian issues. For example, in 2010, the leaders of Albania, Macedonia, BiH and Romania took part in a conference on confidence-building measures in Asia held in Turkey.
At the same time, the Islamic character of the Turkish state is not a hindrance to the international fraternity. The same Davutoglu during his visit to BiH said that Bosnians, Serbs, Croats are “part of one soup”.
True, in Sarajevo, Turkey did not support all parties, but Bosnian ones, and also raised the question of historical, religious and cultural ties, of the growing military and political power of Turkey, ready to support its brothers in Bosnia.
Further, Ankara is positioning itself as a mediator between the Balkan countries and NATO. A few years ago, future officers began studying Serbo-Croatian and Albanian languages in the Turkish military schools. The strategic cooperation of Turkey with Albania, which joined NATO in 2009, is getting stronger: joint exercises and maneuvers of the Navy forces are constantly held.
In Kosovo, Turkey participates in training local police units formed by Turkish military and police instructors from the Kosovo Turks.
The President of the Republika Srpska (BiH) Milorad Dodik believes that Ankara’s intentions are in line with neo-Ottomanism:
“Their true desire is to revive neo-Ottomanism here. They are again spreading tales that 500 has reigned here for years, while they destroyed our national treasure. And Turkey at that time committed genocide over the Serbs. ”
He is confident that Turkey in BiH defends exclusively the interests of Muslims.
The closest attention of Turkey is now turned to the south of Serbia: it is here that the Muslim population lives. Here is located and Sandzak. His religious and political leader Zukorlich, after a series of visits by Turkish politicians, began to come out with a demand to grant autonomy to three communities with the majority of the Muslim population. Turkey immediately offered economic assistance and investments to Sandzak.
So, tearing apart Yugoslavia does not seem to be completed. Only now, in addition to the West, Turkey is involved in the matter.
Former Ambassador of Yugoslavia to Russia Borislav Milosevic says:
“... Serbia is also the 14th century, when the Serbian kingdom was hegemonic in the Balkans, and the people's liberation struggle against the Turks in the 19th century, and the Balkan wars, and the First World Epic, in which Serbia lost almost half of its population, and the unification of southern Slavs 1918 year, and “better coffin than slave” in 1941 year, and Uzhitsk republic (September-November 1941), led by the communists, and large-scale, as in nowhere enslaved Europe, the national liberation struggle against anti-fascism, and an integral part of the anti-Hitler coalition, and federal republics but it gained prestige throughout the world thanks to both its internal system (the socialist self-government of the workers) and its foreign policy of non-alignment with the military-political blocs. This is the recent struggle to preserve independence, against NATO and the Hague dictates and shame ... "
He adds:
“In the destruction of Yugoslavia, the main role was played by Germany, the Vatican, and America. And today, Brussels and Washington continue to intervene in the internal and foreign policy of our country, in effect pursuing their dictates. The people are divided and humiliated. ”
According to him, Serbia occupies a central position on the Balkan Peninsula and controls the strategically important Moravian-Vardar Valley - from the north to the Aegean Sea. Therefore, they are trying to isolate Serbia. Attempts at isolation Borislav Milosevic calls "permanent dismemberment":
“For a number of years, there has been a constant dismemberment of Serbia, support by the West for the country's centrifugal forces. This is not only in Kosovo, but also in the case of the Muslim Sanjak, or of the multinational Vojvodina. ”
According to the plan of irrepressible dissenters, Serbia should be shackled into a tight framework: it cannot exist as an independent state in them. She will have to accept the role of a “protectorate”, a limited territory under foreign control. It can be cut off from Macedonia, the ex-ambassador said, and she is already cut off from the sea. Serbia will not be able to control the Moravian-Vardar Valley and will lose its role in geopolitics.
Chief Editor of the Belgrade independent newspaper Danas, Mikhail Ramach talking on this topic:
“In the Serbian province of Sandzak, the majority of the population are Islamized Slavs, who in the past were called Muslims, at present they are Bosniaks. In Vojvodina, next to the others, the Hungarian minority is well organized. These and other minorities recognize Serbia as their state. But between them there are extremists. In the case of riots, they could demand that parts of Serbia join the neighboring countries - to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary ... and Serbs from Republika Srpska - to Serbia. Thus, it is difficult ... "
Sandzak is located in the southwest of the Rash region. In recent years, there, including under Turkish influence, the radical Islamists (Wahhabis) have become more active, for whom the instability of the region is only on hand.
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“Fans of the Novi Pazar club constantly and openly express their contempt for national state symbols, accepting Islamic ones, and openly supporting Turkey.”
A significant part of the population sees its identity in the Islamic religion and those historical forms of culture that were formed as a result of the domination of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans. It is curious that the Muslims of Sandzak are actually Serbs who Islamized in the Middle Ages.
In the period of the Balkan domination of the Turks, Sandzak was a special administrative unit, which is now emphasized by Muslims. And during the Third Reich, more precisely, in 1941, the local population supported the German occupiers. Why? It counted on the return of the autonomy of Sandzak, granted by the decision of the Berlin Congress 1878 of the year and canceled after control was established by the Serbian-Montenegrin authorities in November 1912.
In those days, Achief Effendi, a graduate of the Turkish Military Academy in Bitola, was the main fighter against the Orthodox Chetniks and partisan communists. It was he who united people with Muslim identity and, one might say, stopped the outflow of the population from Sandzak to Turkey.
The current leader of the anti-Serbian layers of the region is Mufti Muamer Zukorlich, who continually declares the oppression of the rights of the local population and demands autonomy from Belgrade.
The problem of Sandzak is extremely convenient both for the West and Turkey. The United States and Great Britain use it for constant pressure on the Serbian government. In Belgrade, there is a club "Friends of Sandzak", which includes ambassadors of leading Western countries. This organization certainly performs the functions of supporting the movement of Muslims of the region. It is also known that Mr. Zukorlich is in close connection with the Islamic leaders from Bosnia and from Kosovo: Mustafa Cerici and Recep Boy.
Many analysts believe that the problem of Sandzak is too acute to be solved by diplomacy alone.
The situation in both Sandjak and Vojvodina changed in the direction of increasing separatism in 2009, when the Serbian government made Serbia’s main task accession to the EU. In order to accelerate Euro-integration of Serbia and not without pressure from the Union of Hungarians of Vojvodina, actively supported by Budapest, a new law on National Councils was adopted.
Elections based on the new law passed 6 June 2010 in the 167 communities of Serbia. The voter lists included 460000 representatives of the 19 national minorities, of which 16 directly elected their representatives to the National Councils. In addition, in addition to the existing 15 National Councils, four more were created after the elections.
The competence of the National Councils has expanded: they received approximately 70 specific powers in the exercise of the rights of national minorities. The Soviets can now establish educational, cultural, media institutions; may require the introduction of official national language and script in particular communities; suggest changing the names of streets, squares, city blocks; to participate in the drafting of laws relating to national minorities, etc. The powers of the National Councils have become so great that the Serbian Parliament has since then not been able to pass a single law relating to national minorities without their approval.
Thirdly, the law allowed the inclusion of political parties and organizations of national minorities in the election process of the Soviets. As a result, the political weight of the National Council has increased dramatically. The Soviets actively interact with "their" political parties - first of all, this refers to the Hungarians and Bosniacs, who are talking about the issues of decentralization and regionalization.
As a result, the law 2009 of the year created a model of expanded self-government of minorities in Serbia - in fact, a legitimate model for the spread of separatism on a federal basis. Serbian President B. Tadic at that time expressed the opinion that the national minorities of Serbia in 2009 received such rights that no one in Europe possesses.
As for Vojvodina, the so-called groups of political activists have long been there ready on a signal from Budapest and with the support of the EU to implement a plan for the withdrawal of the province from Serbia. They interfere with one thing: the Constitution of Serbia. And to blame the notorious integrity of the territory, approved by the people.
In order to overcome this problem, in April 2012, the Fourth Voivodeship Convention passed, at which it was proposed to adopt the Declaration on the Foundations of the Unification of Serbia and Vojvodina. The word “union” is a pretext for a political pamphlet ...
In the end, the “unification” of Serbia would become the Federal Republic of Serbia, that is, it would in fact split into the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Vojvodina.
Fourth convention organized small voivodina parties advocating the “revision of the constitutional position of Vojvodina” within the framework of the Republic of Serbia. Parties are small, but behave like big ones. They culminate Voevodina separatism and lead directly to the goal - the removal of Vojvodina from the Serbian constitutional field. With the filing of all interested foreign forces, of course.
And here again the name of Mufti Zukorlich flashes. It was he who created a coalition with the parties of national minorities from Vojvodina, so that separatism quickly spread to two fronts at once: Rash region, i.e. Sandzak, and Vojvodina. In one fell swoop, they say, two birds with one stone.
Here were revealed the sin of federalism, which once reached maximalism in Yugoslavia. Indeed, before the adoption of the Constitution 1974 year, пишет Miodrag Milikic, Vojvodina was considered an inseparable part of Serbia, as in the case of Kosovo and Metohija.
“But in this Constitution, Vojvodina and Kosovo gave a certain autonomy and authority, which spurred separatism in both areas, today we can see with our own eyes what result it has in the southern Serbian region and what it all led to. Since the history of magistra vitae, that is, the teacher of life, we could learn from our national history from the mistakes of our ancestors and not repeat them, but no one would listen to us until "our" government works under the orders of others. "
As a result, thanks to the special allocation of Vojvodina, it turned out that the provision of a high degree of autonomy serves so that “politicians and parties in the regional authorities earn more ...” As a result, residents of the region received separatism, which over the years only grew.
“It can be peaceful,” Milikich writes, “as in Catalonia or Scotland today, or it can be militant, according to the model of Cosmet, the Basque Country, etc. Judging by the way the youth of the largest party of autonomy supporters have been behaving recently The leagues of the Social Democrats of Vojvodina, within the framework of the organization AFANS, - Vojvodina will face a meeting with militant type of separatism in the future. People will say: “Yes, we, the Serbs, in Vojvodina 80%! What kind of separatism and what can they do with us? ”Indeed, there are so many of us, but groups of brainwashed young people began to emerge who claim that by nationality they are“ voivodzhane ”- voevodinists and speak“ voevodinsky ”language ...”
Russian analyst Peter Iskanderov считаетthat the European Union and the Hungarian separatists of Vojvodina represent now a united front, the aim of which is the final liquidation of the sovereign Serbian state and its return to the times of the Middle Ages and the Ottoman yoke. In addition to nationalism and Islamic radicalism, the desire for dismemberment is also related to the fact that at one time the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina failed to take in the hands of the strategic oil and gas facilities and infrastructure of Serbia. That is why they headed for the state-administrative division of Serbia. What's next? And then further “cell division” is supposed: up to the transformation of a territory into a certain community of areas, each of which can be turned into a new center of separatism.
In fact, this is no longer a parade of sovereignties, but naturally about the game of knives: sovereignty or autonomy is not for the sake of “liberation”, but for private purposes, which the leaders of the West cannot but encourage — after all they will not wait for Serbia "protectorate".
And then, within the framework of the same strategy of the final dismemberment of Serbia, at the end of October the German “plan” for the north of Kosovo was approved.
In October, diplomatic sources Brought to the attention of the world community a plan for the north of Kosovo, specifying the provisions of the “German ultimatum from seven points”. The plan proceeds from the fact that the Serbian north will be an integral part of the Albanian Kosovo. And for that, Serbia will be called the date of commencement of negotiations on its accession to the EU in December. Beginning of the negotiations!
Anna Filimonova пишет:
“So, the West demands: Serbia should give Kosovo along with the north, leaving a kind of“ financial autonomy ”(the outcome of the Serb population in these conditions is inevitable), and completely surrender to the mercy of the winners - NATO and the Kosovo Albanians. However, the winners will never treat those who suffered a defeat in the war as an equal party. Serbia is on the verge of becoming a classical semi-colony (a formally independent country with a poorly developed economy controlled by foreign capital, whose foreign and domestic policies are completely under external control). ”
Karel Schwarzenberg, the first vice-premier and minister of foreign affairs of the Czech Republic, in October determined the current situation of torn Serbia. is he считаетthat Serbia is a country that suffered a defeat in the war with NATO, and therefore the current policy of the West towards it is determined by its fundamental starting point: the side that lost the war must pay the winner with resources and territories. And the current cohort of the European ruling elite, to which Schwarzenberg belongs, does not object to the idea of giving the Balkans "to be devoured" by Turkey.
The representative of the United Kingdom at the European Parliament Nigel Ferridge declares:
“All politicians in the Balkans are only doing someone’s tasks ... but the key issues are solved in Washington and Brussels, not in Belgrade ... and I find it funny when they ask me when the New World Order will come. Because he came a long time. Good or bad - look at the global situation. Is everything normal, or is everything falling into the abyss? Decide for yourself. Serbia before the abyss! Serbian politicians are very intimidated and nervous, they don’t know where to get money ... The problem is that Serbian politicians do not take the trouble to solve something, they just ask Washington and Brussels what to do next instead of doing something themselves . Maybe the north of Kosovo will be Serbian. But hardly".
In the electric sense, Pristina has already lost its independence. She sold the entire regional electricity distribution network of the Electroenergy Campaign of Serbia, serving 400 thousands of consumers, to the Turkish concern Chalik and Limak.
Turkey same voices the idea that it is valued as a connoisseur of the Balkans and the peoples living there. That is why the NATO Council has given Ankara a two-year mandate for the role of assistant to the admission of Balkan countries to NATO.
And another opinion is expressed by other Western politicians: the Balkan countries are “unstable”, and therefore need Rurik, which will reconcile the nations and explain to them how to live stable, and at the same time teach them to their unobtrusive Western figure.
All these Western advisers and their Turkish like-minded people forget that the “peace” and “stability” mentioned above existed in Yugoslavia before “democracy” got into it, including with fire and sword. There was peace and stability in Libya and in Egypt (Hillary Clinton, by the way, considered this country under Mubarak almost the benchmark of stability), and in Syria. After the destruction of stability caused by the feeding from inside of separatism, the task immediately appears to build it - on behalf of the winner, claiming to set the tone for everything: in economics, in ideology, in strategy, in national priorities (the latter - exclusively on behalf of the oppressed minority).
And what do you want? New World Order has already arrived. Washington and Brussels rule the world. And where they do not rule today, they are going to begin to rule tomorrow.
Observed Oleg Chuvakin
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