Southeast Europe Today. Immediate Development Prospects
... opened a number of enterprises in Serbia. The expansion of the Free Trade Agreement between Turkey and Serbia has helped lay solid foundations for increasing trade turnover. Similarly, Ankara is working with its traditional protégés in the region, Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) and Albania, and in-depth interaction has also been established with Macedonia. These developments allow Turkey to exert its political influence: the Balkan states willingly extradite the fugitive followers of Muhammed Fethullah Gülen, whom Recep Erdogan accuses of the attempted coup in 2016, to Turkey. China’s investment policy in the region appears ...