Does Vuciq stand in the wake of the anti-Turkish riots in Montenegro as revenge against Ankara, which gave the threat to Kosovo?

Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vucic, has denied Wednesday that he was behind incidents targeting Turkish immigrants in Montenegro and added that “had no idea this was happening”.

Responding to charges from Podgorica that Montenegro is taking revenge on Turkey because Ankara supplied Kosovo with fear, Vucic said that “such a thing had never occurred to him”.

“They must make a new agenda, because they do not know what to offer except hatred to any Serb find”, Vucic said.

Incidents in Montenegro began on 26 October, following a clash in which one Podgorica resident was wounded, and for which two foreign citizens are suspected.

The clash sparked protests in the streets of Podgorica with the message that <x0-Turkish should be expelled from Montenegro”. What followed were attacks on Turkish citizens and their property.

As a result, the Montenegrin government, which includes parties close to Vucicicic '%, reacted by establishing visa regimes for Turkish citizens.

Montenegro's Social Democratic Party Chairman Ivan Vujovic praised on social networks that Vucic was taking action against Turkey through Montenegro because Ankara sent fears to Kosovo.

Vucic claimed Vujovic is “a boy who carries orders for (former Montenegrin president) Milo Djukanovic”, and the same is true of writer Andrej Nikolaidis, who said the riots in Podgorica “hold the Serbian president's clear authorial firm”.

Vujovic and Nikolaidis were not the only ones to accuse authorities in Belgrade.

Responding to the Montenegrin government's decision to lift the visa-free regime for Turkish citizens, the European League in opposition estimated this was “akt xenophobia” and dangerous on the part of the Government, and that all this is “located at the command of the chief serving in Belgrade”.

At once after the news that Turkey had sent fears to Kosovo. That was enough reason for the Spajic government and its extremist partners to begin a new wave of hysteria to all Turkish people”, the party said on October 28th.

On 27 October, when anti-Turkish gatherings began, the chairman of the Islamic Community in Montenegro, Rifat Fejzic, commented on the event in the context of the cooling of relations between Belgrade and Ankara.

“After less than 20 days, is Belgrade punishing Turkey via Montenegro?”, Fejzic wrote on the X network, posting a photo of the text with the title “Vucic attacked Turkey: We know what you're planning...”

A part of the ruling coalition in Montenegro, primarily the Democratic Front parties, have close ties with Belgrade and Serbian Vucic./ REL