Turkey's critical move in the Balkans

We spent the last two days of 2015 joining Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu's trip to Belgrade, Serbia's capital, as a group of journalists. 

At the moment our airplane landed, we found ourselves in an unprecedented heavy fog that dominated our whole trip. During our press conference at the end of the first day, Davuto?lu shared the unexpected news: "During my meeting with the Serbian prime minister today, I called the prime minister of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Upon my invitation, he will come to Serbia tomorrow and the three of us will hold a meeting in the Sandzak area."

This was a big surprise for all of us not only because of the weather conditions that would make his trip to Sandzak almost impossible. The news was most surprising for everyone following the developments in the Balkans these days.

Sandzak is almost equivalent to Bosnia-Herzegovina since its population is composed predominantly by Bosnian Muslims. It is most critical these days that Serbian Prime Minister visits Sandzak, more importantly for the sake to meet with his Bosnian counterpart. This is because the relations between Serbs and Bosnians are on the edge today, implying the tensest period since the Bosnian War.

Last May I was in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina where I observed that the Dayton Accords, which was formed in the aftermath of the war, is a powder keg. At the time, I had written in this column, "even though 20 years have passed since the end of the war in 1995, the factors that triggered the war still prevail. Another war is inevitable if they don't switch to a Dayton-2 period immediately."

The main reason behind this is the increasing tension between the two political entities that compose Bosnia-Herzegovina: the Federation of...