Turkey’s Influence on Bosnian Islam: Neo-Ottomanism Meets Post-Communism

Is Turkey returning to the Balkans, or did it never leave the region even after the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the first quarter of the twentieth century? When it comes to foreign influence in the Balkans, no other country has received quite the attention and scrutiny that Turkey has. This short documentary film, produced by journalist and scholar Harun Karčić, analyses relations between Turkey and Bosnia and Herzegovina since the breakup of Yugoslavia and during the turbulent war years, focusing on their evolution in the post-civil war period with the rise of the AK Party in Ankara. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which Turkey has used Islam to project its soft power influence among Balkan Muslims. To learn more about Turkish influence on Islam in Bosnia, check out these related resources: “From Myth to Reality: How to Understand Turkey’s Role in the Western Balkans” Asli Aydıntaşbaş European Council on Foreign Relations, London, 2019 https://ecfr.eu/publication/from_myth... “Turkey’s Role in the Western Balkans” Alida Vračić German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin, 2016 https://www.swp-berlin.org/publicatio... “Turkey’s Balkan Policy and Its Skeptics” Mehmet Uğur Ekinci Insight Turkey, Ankara, 2019 https://www.insightturkey.com/file/11... Watch other documentaries on religious soft power in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Iranian Soft Power and Religion in Bosnia: A Diplomacy of Shared Oppression    • Iranian Soft Power and Religion in Bosnia:...   Islam in Bosnia After Communism: The Saudi Connection    • Islam in Bosnia After Communism: The Saudi...   To learn more about the activities of the Geopolitics of Religious Soft Power project, visit http://bit.ly/ReligiousSoftPower This video is made possible by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The statements made and views expressed in this video are solely the responsibility of the authors and interviewees.