НОВИ УГАРСКО-ТУРСКИ МЕГДАН И ЗНАЧАЈ МАЛОАЗИЈСКО-ПАНОНСКОГ СТРАТЕГИЈСКОГ ПРАВЦА
THE NEW HUNGARIAN-TURKISH COMPETITION AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ASIA MINOR-PANNONIAN STRATEGIC DIRECTION

Author(s): Nebojša Vuković
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Security and defense, Military policy, Geopolitics
Published by: Institut za strategijska istraživanja
Keywords: Hungary; Turkey; Serbia; strategic direction; geopolitics
Summary/Abstract: The paper describes and interprets the foreign policy of the Republic of Hungary and the Republic of Turkey on the Balkan Peninsula. Special attention is paid to Hungarian initiatives and actions in the Republika Srpska and the Republic of North Macedonia, as well as to the traditional ties and influences of the Republic of Turkey in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the southern Serbian province – Kosovo and Metohija. The article also analyses the actions of these two states in the Republic of Serbia. The paper argues that both sides are “consolidating” their positions in the face of a possible multidimensional confrontation of a coalition nature, which could resemble (at least partially) the conflict from the Middle Ages during the great Ottoman incursion into the Balkans and parts of Central Europe. In short, the (hypo)thesis of the paper is that Hungary and Turkey in the Balkans, especially in the area of the former SFRY, are in a state of “tacit competition” that could intensify or escalate in the future. This possible confrontation would immensely affect both the interests of the Republic of Serbia and its territory, because the main direction of confrontation would extend across the Asia Minor-Pannonian (Pannonian-Asia Minor) strategic direction, which in the past was of key importance in the processes of composing the political map of the southeastern part of the Old Continent.

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