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Турци, Срби и неоосманизам: исходишта и озбиљења
Turks, Serbs and Neoosmanism: Start Points and Realizations

Author(s): Slobodan Nagradić
Subject(s): Political Philosophy, Islam studies, International relations/trade, Politics and religion, Sociology of Politics, Geopolitics
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Banjoj Luci
Keywords: neootmanism; kemalism; modern Turkey; Islam; panislamism; strategic depth; real-politics; Kurdi question; international relationships; security; European integrations; NATO; West Balkans; Serbs;

Summary/Abstract: Policy of the modern Turkish state in the last decade, inner, and even more foreign, in the international arena, is inspired and defined with principles and parameters which can be called neoosmanism. That ideological orientation and political practice has its start point in the principles and practice of Ottoman Empire political activities, which leading turkish politicians, summoned arround Justice and development Party, lead by current Turkish prime minister Rejep Tayip Erdogan, today strive not only to rehabilitate, but also to implemetn the postulates of its rule and values that are imanent to Islam. In an international arena, where one of the directions and goals of their activities is also Balkans, meaning also Serbian people and their countries (Serbia, BiH and others), neootman Turkish policy acquires reputation and sense with the doctrine, which its author, Turkish minister of the foreign affairs Ahmet Davutoglou, called strategic depth. So, Serbs are facing a challenge of confronting neootmanism as a policy which will result in new geopolitical redesign of Balkan, Asia Minor, Middle Eastern, Middle Asian, and Caucasian congigurations of power and influence, thus it is important what historical reply to this challenge will they provide. The author pleds that a reply and attitude of Serb people and its countries towards neootmanism should base on principles and values of real-politics.

  • Issue Year: 1/2011
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 151-181
  • Page Count: 31
  • Language: Serbian