Once more, Turkey leaps into the void!

WSJ story on how Turkey is becoming the diplomatic center of gravity in the Balkans, replacing the US and EU, who were getting nowhere on securing a new constitutional settlement on Bosnia because the Russians were being unhelpful.

So Ankara steps in about a year ago in an effort to foster dialogue among Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia.

Unlike in the Middle East, Turkey’s efforts in the Balkans have largely been welcomed by the West.

A great review comes by way of a former strategic analyst for the Office of the High Representative for Bosnia:

If you compare the solo Turkish diplomatic efforts to everyone else’s in the past six months, they are the only people who got anything done at all.

Nice work if you can hack it, and if you can hack it, won't you tell us how?

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