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France With Macron: The Destabilizing Factor In The Balkans

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  • Tulun, Teoman Ertuğrul

    (Center For Eurasian Studies (AVİM))

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In many of our previous articles, we had drawn attention to the historic and geographic integrity of the Balkans. When one refers to the Balkans, it has historically conjured a region encompassing Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, the successor states of former Yugoslavia (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia), and Albania. Despite this historic definition of the region, in the context of European Union (EU) expansion, the term “Western Balkans” has been fabricated since early 1990s. According to the EU; Croatia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Greece, since they are members of the EU, are not part of the Balkans anymore. On the other hand, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania, and Macedonia comprise the so-called "Western Balkans" sub-region. Turkey, by its lonesome self, makes up the other, unmentioned part of the Balkans which supposedly forms the "Eastern Balkans”. It should be reiterated on this occasion that this fabricated terminology of “Western Balkans”, in a harmful and imperceptible fashion, excludes Turkey from the Balkans, hence from Europe. In this respect, we continue to believe that this terminology is biased against Turkey.

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  • Tulun, Teoman Ertuğrul, 2019. "France With Macron: The Destabilizing Factor In The Balkans," OSF Preprints tvhwc, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:tvhwc
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/tvhwc
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    1. Tulun, Teoman Ertuğrul, 2021. "Legacy Of "Krisenmanagerin": Merkel And The Balkans," OSF Preprints 8gr3h, Center for Open Science.

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