In the 2010s, Turkey made a soft-power breakthrough in Serbia. As a result, Erdogan polls decently also in Republika Srpska and Montenegro. His strong ties to Putin must have impressed Serb nationalists too, who presently hate the US more than they hate Islam.
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Dimitar Bechev
@DimitarBechev
Erdogan is the most popular foreign leader in the Western Balkans, per @IRIglobal
