Turkey to build Belgrade-Sarajevo highway and boost relations with Serbia

[Böri]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held talks with Serbia's president on Tuesday as Ankara stepped up efforts to increase its clout in the Balkans.

Erdogan's talks with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic focused on trade and investment, but also covered political relations in the region, where many countries have historic and religious links with Turkey from centuries of Ottoman rule.

Erdogan said that the current trade exchange between the two countries of $800 million (682 million euros) "is not enough" and that it should rapidly grow in the near future.

He promised more Turkish investments, including into a highway linking the Serbian and Bosnian capitals.

Erdogan said at a joint press conference with Vucic that more investments and road links would "solve the problems in the Balkans."

Relations between Serbia and Turkey have improved recent years, after decades of mistrust between the two nations. Serbia was ruled for almost 500 years by the Ottoman Empire.

Turkey backed Bosnian Muslims in the 1990s war that pitted them against the Christian Orthodox Serbs and Catholic Croats.

"This is not 1389, but 2017," Vucic said, referring to the year when the Ottoman occupation of Serbia started. "Today, Serbia considers Turkey as its friend."

Serbian and Turkish officials signed several agreements on Tuesday, including an amended free trade accord that will open the Turkish market to several Serb products.

Erdogan will travel with Vucic to the predominantly Muslim-populated southern Sandzak region of Serbia on Wednesday.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/...clout-50389519

[Decius]

Vucic is a traitor EU puppet

[Pahli]

No one should befriend that devil to Erdogan, he is obviously going to do this for his own agenda

[The Illyrian Warrior]

No one should befriend that devil to Erdogan, he is obviously going to do this for his own agenda

Hopefully I live the day when bomb above his head is dropped, he's worst possible nightmare for everywhere.

[Pahli]

Hopefully I live the day when bomb above his head is dropped, he's worst possible nightmare for everywhere.

He is a fucking parasite for everyone of his neighbours, the only ones to love him are:

- Islamists
- Turkish nationalists
- Terrorist groups in Syria

[Ülev]

actually Erdogan is making his own union, was in Ukraine, will go to Poland soon

[The Illyrian Warrior]

He is a fucking parasite for everyone of his neighbours, the only ones to love him are:

- Islamists
- Turkish nationalists
- Terrorist groups in Syria

Lately Putin, who treat him like a childhood toy.

[Böri]

I am not Erdogan supporter.

That's not about Erdogan or Vucic here. This is diplomacy and that's beyond politics.
That's about normalizing/improving ties between different states. Erdogan and Vucic are details, diplomacy and bilateral international ties matter.

The Turkic state and the Balkan nations must have good ties.

[Decius]

I am not Erdogan supporter.

That's not about Erdogan or Vucic here. This is diplomacy and that's beyond politics.
That's about normalizing/improving ties between different states. Erdogan and Vucic are details, diplomacy and bilateral international ties matter.

The Turkic state and the Balkan nations must have good ties.

Why would we want good relations with you

[Böri]

Why would we want good relations with you

Ask that question to the Serbian state officials.