Erdogan in Novi Pazar: This is my native land

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is visiting Novi Pazar, where he said that "Turkey and the Sandzak region" have special relations.

"Novi Pazar is my native land. Your happiness is our happiness, your pain is our pain," Erdogan said.

Erdogan and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Wednesday a meeting with mayors and presidents of the municipalities of Novi Pazar, Raska, Kraljevo, Sjenica, Tutin, Prijepolje, Nova Varos and Priboj.
Prior to this, a large number of Novi Pazar residents welcomed by two presidents.

Novi Pazar, the largest town in Serbia's southwestern region known informally as Sandzak - home to a large Muslim (Bosniak) minority - is today decorated with billboards with Erdogan's images, flags of Serbia and Turkey, and Bosniak flags.

Erdogan is on a two-day state visit to Serbia that started on Tuesday.

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