Erdogan's rapprochement with Russia has cooled Turkish reports Kosovo

Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vuciq, will remain in Ankara on May 6th on a two-day visit, has been announced by Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan's cabinet.

And international relations professor Srdjan Perisic estimates ahead of President Aleksandar Vuciq's visit to Ankara and Moscow that good relations between these two countries are in Serbia's favour.

He adds that the focus of these talks will be economic co-operation, but the Kosovo issue as well.

Perischi, for the Serbian news agency “Tanjug”, has said that political and economic relations between Serbia and Turkey have only increased since 2016, above all, with the fact that Turkey had changed its policy at the time and made a distance from the “the neo-Othomanicic”.

He says Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmet Davutoglu's earlier statement that “Kosovo is Turkey, and Turkey is Kosovo”, as well as “Bosnia is Turkish, and Bosnian Turkey”, are now certainly things of the past.

The “up to this distance has come after the renewal of Turkey's relations with Russia since May and June 2016. This has also contributed to the change in its policy in the Balkans. Had there not been good reports between Ankara and Moscow, there would not be good reports either between Ankara and Belgrade”, Perispi, Coha.net broadcasts.

Good reports between Russia and Turkey go to the best of Serbia, he adds, and stresses that Vuciki's visit to Turkey -- and then to Russia -- is the continuation of good co-operation.

Russia is our multi-year-old friend, associate and all the changes in Russia are reflected in us. Strengthening it completely depends on us. Maintaining Serbia's national interests with a strengthened Russia, our interests and Russia's interests as huge power are compatible, and in this atmosphere Vuciqi's visit to Ankara and Moscow” is being praised, Perisic is convinced.

He adds that in the context of resolving the Kosovo issue, even the fact that Turkey has “invited the reports with Kosovo, has changed policy as regards the Kosovo issue.

All these are good signals in our position and struggle that Kosovo and Metohia are still part of Serbia. They have recognised Kosovo as an independent state, but it is feeling this deviation as a result of geopolitical developments on the” international scene, Perisic said.

The professor of international relations says he doesn't know what will be talked about Kosovo at the meeting between Vuciqi and Erdogan, but stresses that “will no longer have statements on their part that Kosovo is Turkey”, which, according to him, “is a huge advantage in Serbian-Turkish” reports.