FORMER BALKANS NEW BORDERS: TURKEY - BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA RELATIONS IN THE PROCESS OF THE DISSOLUTION OF THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA

The changes in the states, especially in their regions, in this sense states must take many foreign policy decisions. The destruction of East Block at the beginning of the 1990s was the significant starting point in other words period and it was a painful turn in terms of both the Eastern Bloc states and other states. This process has been felt more intensely and deeply in the Balkan peninsula and the Caucasus, and the conflicts have become an unconventional routine of everyday life. In this regard Turkey which is also influenced by its position and it is influenced by this process of transition and conflict in line with this not only by the peoples of the region but also by means of developments in the international political system global and regional powers are in conflicts with each other. The states which supported the forces and in and out of conflicting parties in region had to come together for a solution. Many times, the result of peace negotiations was not successful, so it returned more difficult conditions and deepening conflict. As a regional power; Turkey is one of the state which has traumatic process while the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia. Despite of sometimes the cut off relations with Bosnia Herzegovina and Turkey but there is a long-term close relationship with each other which is based upon history. The fact that Turkey is located on the peninsula of Balkan and because of these political factors and conditions in the end Turkey is a place of solution and conflict in this political issue. As a final remark, the nearly four-year period that resulted with the 1995 Dayton Treaty and in this respect Bosnia-Herzegovina issue was one of the priority issues of Turkish foreign policy. During the establishment in other words construction process of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Turkish foreign policy was not only moral support, but also it had important consequences in this context.