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27 July 2022
While in Kosovo and in other countries in the Balkans Turkish officials pay special attention to the Muslim minorities. This has become the basis of their foreign policy within the region.
During the visit of Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu to Pristina on 19 June 2022, President Vjosa Osmani stressed the importance of Turkey’s role in supporting Kosovo’s membership in NATO and other international institutions. Osmani stressed that integrating the Western Balkans into the Euro-Atlantic structures restricts Russia’s influence and destabilising tendency in the region.
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Lastly, she emphasised that Turkey and Kosovo have ‘excellent interstate relations’ and that the Turkish community, as well as the large Albanian diaspora community in Turkey, serves as a strong bridge between the two countries.