Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sees the situation in Afghanistan as a serious warning to the West to pursue a cautious policy and not to create further chaos in the hotspots, the Macedonian newspaper MKD reported. focus-news.net
This is a message that, according to the Serbian member of the Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) presidency, Milorad Dodik, may also be valid for his country.
“Developed countries need to be significantly more careful when leaving a region. This was not the case in Afghanistan, and this opens up space for terrorist groups, “Erdogan told a joint news conference with the three members of the BiH presidency in Sarajevo.
He added that with the withdrawal from Afghanistan, interest in the country has not disappeared, especially since a new terrorist threat is being created there. He said there should be room for co-operation with the Taliban, which is different from two decades ago.
“Today’s Taliban are not the old ones. It doesn’t matter who says what, but what is done. “What matters is what the Taliban are doing now, not what they did in the past.” Dodik drew a parallel between Afghanistan and Bosnia and Herzegovina, hinting that international officials should also withdraw from the country.
“We believe in cooperating with Erdogan more than trying to impose some failed solutions here,” Dodik said.
The Turkish president is visiting BiH, where he said he felt at home and called the country’s citizens brothers and sisters. After meeting with the state leadership, he said the focus is on strengthening political and economic ties and the situation in the region.
“We have reaffirmed our support for BiH’s integration into the Euro-Atlantic community,” Erdogan said, but avoided answering reporters’ questions about the country’s domestic political problems. And they were reaffirmed by the three members of the state leadership, who argued even at the joint press conference.
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