DODIK: BY SENDING DRONES TO PRIŠTINA, TURKEY IS SENDING A MESSAGE OF NEO-OTTOMANISM

BANJA LUKA, OCTOBER 9 /SRNA/ - Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik emphasized that Turkey's decision to deliver kamikaze drones to Priština is not an act that promotes peace but an act of open hostility, and asked whether the next step would be supplying weapons to Bosniaks in BiH, which could then be directed against Serbs and Croats.

"It is time to stop trusting Turkey's declarative statements about cooperation with all peoples in BiH. It is clear that the aim is cooperation with only one," Dodik stated. He pointed out that Serbs in Republika Srpska should closely observe the delivery of drones to so-called Kosovo, as it is not a message directed only at Serbia, but also at all those in BiH who do not agree to a policy of subservience. When weapons are distributed selectively while peace is preached declaratively, the President of Srpska noted, that is not diplomacy, but a strategy of pressure. "And that is why Serbs can no longer afford to deceive themselves - in these times, the most important ally is unity," Dodik wrote on X. When Turkey sends drones to the Balkans, Dodik emphasizes, the pretense of friendship and good relations ends, and a message of neo-Ottomanism is being sent. "Sending weapons to so-called Kosovo is not an act that promotes peace but an act of open hostility. The delivery of kamikaze drones to Priština is not cooperation in any sense but a brutal threat to Serbia and Serbs, and support for Albin Kurti in his election campaign, as the main exponent of anti-Serb policy, literally threatening Serbs," Dodik stated. The President of Republika Srpska points out that this is a flagrant violation of international law and UN Resolution 1244 and an attempt to revive in so-called Kosovo the mentality of the former Kosovo vilayet - a political project whose aim was not only to remove Serbs from Kosovo, but to make them disappear wherever they had survived for centuries. "That is why the policy of President /of Serbia, Aleksandar/ Vučić, of continuously strengthening the Serbian Army is the only correct one," Dodik emphasized.