Marko Lopusina | Serbia is mesmerized with Turkish soap operas and the authorities in Ankara believe that this Ottoman subculture that is winning over in the Balkans can make Serbs into new Turkish Janissaries.

During the international basketball game between Serbia and Turkey some cheering fans in Serbia commented, after the loss, that after all “those Turkish players look like our basketball players”. If history is to be the guide, however, it is the other way around as nations in the Balkans and particularly Christian women, over the centuries, all got more from the Turks then just their husbands beheaded.

Turkish star of the TV series Gümüş, which means Perl, get 50% higher rating in Bulgaria then a Bulgarian TV show. It is estimated that 85 million people watch Gümüş.

Today, viewers in Belgrade and Zagreb weep not over the fate of their ancestors at the hands of the Turkish Islamic masters but at the fate of Eyshan, Gamus, Sheherezade… females in the Turkish soap operas portraying those proven stereotypes about love, infidelity and hatred, of vague motherhood, all in the slave relationship to their master, but also with a new look of the Turkish society… women without the veil.

In Serbia and across the Balkans, over 67 percent of viewers enjoy these Ottoman TV stories. The infection took hold of Germany, which has about 9 million Turks and about a million Yugoslav guest workers.

TV critics easily notice that the TV series were “created for this Balkan region” which is already mentally prone to it after decades of exposure to the Islamicizing turbo folk music, of a resurgent turkish idioms in the language and to an opinion that Istanbul and not Trieste is the shopping paradise.

Use of Turkish language idioms is widespread in Croatia and Serbia and some account that there are about 70,000 of them yet not long ago the greatest Croatian-Serbian literary work, Ivo Andric’s Bridge on the Drina, has 17 stories that won a Nobel Prize describing the struggle and despondency of Christians under these Islamists.

Admittingly, the cuisine of Serbia and of the whole Balkans has Ottoman in it starting from the small coffee cup called “turkish” to foods like sarma and tulumba. Exceptions are Serbian corn bread, polenta and Serbo-Croatian roasted pig which soon may be declared offensive across the entire Balkans.

Turkey also gets 180,000 Serbian tourists while Belgrade and its surroundings get only 7,000 Turkish guests. Apparently, it is the Serbs who desire more of the Turkish then what the Turks want from the Serbs.

Granted, the actual number of Turks who pass through Serbia is much greater then 7,000 but their mission is to drive their Mercedes’ through the Serbian roads while on their way to Germany. Sure, Serbian and Croatian roads are littered after their passing but everyone is happy that they have not decided yet to remain there.

It is these every-day events, seemingly benign, that speak of the great geopolitical game that is enveloping in the Balkans.

Turkey is counting on the soap operas and Balkan affinity for their culture to create new Islamic states in the Balkans… and not just Bosnia and Kosovo, but the entire region seems to have been designated by the big powers, US and Germany, as the Turkish Islamic sphere.

In the case of Serbia, it could look like this: Germany and Turkey will build roads in Raska region, known as Sandzak by the Muslims, Turks will restore their old fortresses from which they ruled over Christians in the Balkans, make Turkish-Serbian airline company, reconcile Sarajevo and Belgrade and, perhaps Germany hopes, millions of their Turks may find the Balkans more pleasant then their Deutscheland.

This, of course, is a far cry when Vienna and Berlin, both Germanic states, acted as defenders of Serbia against the Islamic Turkey… and why?

Turkey needs to “move in” on our space, so not to be further moved into the EU.

To be sure, as Wikileaks shows, US might be little disturbed at the Turkish neo-Ottoman push into the Balkans but as the Kosovo war has suggested, the Americans engage in the Balkans always on the side of Muslims whenever Turkey decides to threaten to move in.

So all these “benign” Turkish soap operas that litter Serbian TV is just the result of the formation of the political and military colony anchored to Ankara, a nice way to say that Turkey is threatening its engagement in the Balkans, and that is the message to Washington saying that it has to give the Balkan Islam more.

Certainly there is a dual tandem – carrot and a stick approach – among these Islamic states as to how they treat the Balkans.

On one hand, we have the Saudis who, as the Times of Lodon reports, and Wikileaks confirms, are “pouring hundreds of millions of pounds into Islamist groups in the Balkans, some of which spread hatred of the West and recruit fighters for jihad in Afghanistan” while, on the other, Turkey is busy painting a lipstick on this ugly Islamic invasion by making us believe that uncloaked Muslim females acting as though independent Islamic mistresses with a faithful husband is the new face of Islam.

It is just the soap of entertainment whereas the reality is still recalled among some in Serbia when every Turkish nobleman, and there were many, had a right to have his first take on any newlywed Christian woman.

Some smart now say that these genes of rape have been awaken in Serbia and are creating new Janissaries.

Have we all become the Turks now?

Marko Lopusina is a journalist with Serbia’s daily Novosti. He has written numerous books on the Balkan wars, mafia and intelligence.

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