Turkey’s Erdogan Joins Mass Srebrenica Ceremony in Sarajevo

Thousands of people including Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attended a Srebrenica genocide commemoration ceremony in Sarajevo on Tuesday ahead of the anniversary of the 1995 massacres by Bosnian Serb forces.

The ceremony in front of the Bosnian presidency building was held to honour 33 Srebrenica victims whose coffins are being sent to the genocide memorial site for burial at the main anniversary commemoration on Thursday.

Some mourners attached flowers to a truck carrying the coffins of the victims, and crowds of people lined the streets as it passed by.

The Croat and Bosniak members of the country's tripartite presidency, Zeljko Komsic and Sefik Dzaferovic, as well as other high-ranking Bosnian politicians, diplomats and Srebrenica victims' families, also attended the event.

Erdogan arrived in Sarajevo on his presidential plane after he attended a regional summit of the South-East European Co-operation Process in Jahorina.

At Sarajevo airport, there was an altercation between Erdogan's personal bodyguards and the Bosnian border police, media reported.

According to media, his bodyguards even attempted to use weapons, but Erdogan personally stopped the incident.

Border police chief Zoran Galic accused the bodyguards of being very aggressive.

"They did not respect our laws and deserved to be arrested," Galic told Dnevni Avaz.

The Srebrenica commemoration in Sarajevo on Tuesday. Photo: H.M/Klix.ba

The truck carrying the remains of 33 more Srebrenica victims for burial at the memorial site passes through Sarajevo. Photo: H.M/Klix.ba

A boy puts flowers on the truck carrying the remains of the 33 Srebrenica victims. Photo: H.M/Klix.ba

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