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Balkan Chronicle is independent, quality Internet-only publication that reports and examines political, economic, cultural issues related to the wider region of the Balkans. This perspective distinguishes us from the mainstream English-language media whose reporting on the Balkan matters is generally skewed to inform a non-Balkan audience with little or none understanding of the complex Balkan hi

story and culture. Our publication chose the English language so that a wider audience throughout the region and world could be reached. We include articles from correspondents and contributors from all of the Balkan region and its countries, as well as the rest of the world, if it pertains to the main issue we are covering, Muslims of Balkans. Additional content is provided by news services and renowned individuals, think tank and investment analysts and academics. We encourage all of our readers to contribute by sending us their views and information about any issue they believe could be of interest to us. You can send your articles at [email protected] e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it We reserve the right to freely publish these comments on our web site www.balcanchronicle.com. The Balkan Chronicle was founded in the summer of 2008 by a group of people from the various countries of the Balkan region. The decision to start this on-line Internet publication was born inline with the south-eastern expansion of the European Union and inclusion of Romania, Bulgaria, and further predicted expansions with western Balkan states and Turkey. Since the passage of the Single European Act the importance and the autonomy of regions has been significantly increasing over the years. This implies that all regions in Europe are facing the need for adjustment and, for instance, they must develop their own responses shaped by their unique social and regional context. Because of the sudden significance of regions, many sub-national levels of government have formed direct lines of communication with decision-making formations in Brussels. Therefore in response to the development of these new regional dimension of community affairs, we understood that indigenous Muslims groups and nations from the region of the Balkan need to establish ties to better integrate and position themselves within EU structures. We believe that a ‘Europe of regions’ is perhaps one of the best ways to make EU integrations succeed to become healthy and productive and bring long-lasting peace to the region and continent. Hence The Balkan Chronicle wants to give its readers worldwide an overview of Balkan news events and developments with particular, but not exclusive, attention to the Muslims of the region. We want to be the platform for the exchange of news and ideas among the people who are interested in the issue of Muslims in the Balkans. The Balkan Chronicle is intended to reach a global readership. We expect our readers to be open-minded and realize the potential behind increased cooperation between the people of the region. Read more about Belgrad by Administrator

Good conversation about the UN Srebrenica Genocide Resolution:
23/07/2024

Good conversation about the UN Srebrenica Genocide Resolution:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f_yoal4gx8
11/01/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f_yoal4gx8

The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, holds public hearings on the request for the indication of prov...

Join Minority Issues Research Institute (MIRI) for conversation with a panel of experts on the topic of Institutionaliza...
10/12/2023

Join Minority Issues Research Institute (MIRI) for conversation with a panel of experts on the topic of Institutionalization and Mainstreaming Human Rights to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Register here:

Minority Issues Research Institute (MIRI) is organizing a panel of experts on the topic of Institutionalization and Mainstreaming Human Rights to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

These are very hard and bad times, but we all must imagine a better world for everyone. Whoever thinks it can get it bet...
21/10/2023

These are very hard and bad times, but we all must imagine a better world for everyone.

Whoever thinks it can get it better just for himself is wrong,

That is why we have to try to reach out and urge all warring sides to begin talking and find the way to resolve this crisis to a mutual satisfaction.

If we destroy the ideas we worked hard to establish and built thus far since WWII, it is going to be a bad world for everyone. It is much better to try and work hard to build a nice and better world instead.

We cannot change people easily, but we can work to change conditions that breed ill will. So I pray for peace and justice for all of us, and for the people in the Holly Land to stop and turn everything around. They did enough damage to each other and they should try to forgive each other and find peace in forgiveness.

I wish we all refuse to go down the path of destruction. Where we are heading? What do we want?

Look up and re-think, and start reminding everyone, war is over - if you want to.

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2391271/media
14/10/2023

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2391271/media

LONDON: Two sources have confirmed to Arab News that US news network MSNBC has suspended the shows of three Muslim anchors amid rising tensions in Gaza. Earlier today, Semafor revealed that Mehdi Hasan, Ayman Mohieddine and Ali Velshi were “quietly taken out of the anchor’s chair since Hamas’ ...

22/09/2023
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13/09/2023
Member of the UK Parliament Alicia Kearns, today stated:"For too long we have failed to call out the armed Serb militia...
04/07/2023

Member of the UK Parliament Alicia Kearns, today stated:

"For too long we have failed to call out the armed Serb militias operating in the north of Kosovo. The Government are well aware, with the Fusiliers having only just returned from serving in KFOR, that there are weapons being smuggled across the border from Serbia into Orthodox churches in ambulances. When our troops become aware of that, and try to get permission to go and get them, the permissions take too long. By the time there is permission—quelle surprise—an ambulance has turned up at the church and taken all the weapons out again.

I will touch briefly on our export policies towards Serbia. I am gravely concerned about the fact that we are selling small ammunitions to Serbia. Given that the counter-terrorism police there carried out attacks and kidnapped three Kosovan police officers, how do we know that nothing we have sold to Serbia is being used in that context? I urge that a handbrake be put on all export sales to Serbia."

These are serious explanations on the destructive role of Serbia's state and Serbian Orthodox Church as a non-state actor in the Balkans and it is hard to ignore them, More on what she said here:

Hansard record of the item : 'Srebrenica Memorial Week' on Tuesday 4 July 2023.

Serbia created its own horrible reality. Are Serbs going to blame others for it again, as they usually do? Or they going...
15/05/2023

Serbia created its own horrible reality. Are Serbs going to blame others for it again, as they usually do? Or they going to look themselves in the mirror and realize where the source of their problems is?

15/04/2023
https://www.islamicity.org/82117/saint-sava-of-serbia-and-islamophobia/
20/02/2023

https://www.islamicity.org/82117/saint-sava-of-serbia-and-islamophobia/

(Summary: This article discusses the Islamophobic views of St. Sava of Serbia. The discussion is set against the background of several religious and socio-political realities in medieval Serbian society. The article concludes that St. Sava was a precursor of Serbianism as a nationalist ideology. He....

https://youtu.be/3VPSZoqJurU
19/02/2023

https://youtu.be/3VPSZoqJurU

As the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine approaches, the majority of people in almost every European country are opposed to the war... with o...

06/02/2023

Dear friends,

It is with a heavy heart that we announce that due to the earthquake that took place yesterday in Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye, 1.121 people have unfortunately lost their lives and 7.634 people have been injured.

Thank you to all who have called in solidarity. Here are the details of the US-wide officially-coordinated fundraising.

Every drop counts!

Allah yardımcımız olsun.

An interesting book with open access:
02/12/2022

An interesting book with open access:

First Nationalism Then Identity focuses on the case of Bosnian Muslims, a rare historic instance of a new nation emerging. Although for Bosnian Muslims the process of national emergence and the assertion of a new salient identity have been going on for over two decades, Mirsad Kriještorac is....

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