New Best Friends in the Balkans
Some news you might have missed last week: Serbia and Turkey have inaugurated unprecedented initiatives of military and diplomatic intimacy, including joint aviation exercises and a mutual abolition of visas. The timing of these gallantries is rather ironic, as it coincides with the 15th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, which marks the extermination of more than 8,000 Bosnians, mostly boys and men, as well as the ethnic cleansing of some 25,000 to 30,000 more — which extermination and concomitant ethnic cleansing the Serb perpetrators supposedly justified in the name of “driving out the Turks” (i.e., the Muslim Bosnians).