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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met on Wednesday with two members of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s presidency, including its chairman, on the sidelines of the COP31 leaders’ summit in Antalya, and reaffirmed Ankara’s support for the Balkan country’s territorial integrity, sovereignty and constitutional order.
Erdogan received Denis Becirovic, chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and presidency member Zeljko Komsic, who are attending the United Nations climate conference, according to a statement from Türkiye’s Communications Directorate.
The talks covered bilateral relations as well as regional and global issues, the statement said. It gave no further detail on the discussions.
Erdogan told his guests that Türkiye places importance on its friendship with each of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s three constituent peoples, the statement said.
The phrase refers to the Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs, whose power-sharing arrangement was set out in the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement that ended the Bosnian war. The agreement also created the country’s three-member presidency, in which each group is represented.
Türkiye, the statement said, will keep backing the country’s territorial integrity, sovereignty and constitutional order.
Erdogan also said Türkiye will continue to support Althea, the European Union-led mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The EU force took over peacekeeping duties from NATO in late 2004 and has since helped maintain a secure environment under the Dayton framework.
Beyond security, Erdogan emphasized Ankara’s interest in expanding cooperation with Sarajevo in a range of fields, with trade and investment singled out as priorities.
The meeting took place on the margins of the 31st Conference of the Parties (COP31) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is being held in Antalya.
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