Bakir Izetbegovic

Bosnian leader Bakir Izetbegovic said May 12 that Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is a mentor for the Muslims, a fact that makes him unpopular in the West.

Bosnians have found a new way to pay back politicians who do not deliver on their extravagant promises - make fun of them on video games.

The 21st International Economy Fair in Mostar, intended to boost economic cooperation between Balkan states, will be opened on Tuesday by President Aleksandar Vucic of Serbia, which is a partner in this year's event.

These topics "remain unfinished" despite attempts made during the past year to "speed up the dynamic of solving all open issues between BiH (Bosnia-Herzegovina) and Serbia," he told RTS ahead of the meeting in Mostar on Monday.

Covic said that another topic of discussion will be economic cooperation, and added that "trade exchange can be increased in both directions."

A Bosnian website, Prometej, launched an online petition last Friday in support of Enver Kazaz, a professor well known for his sharp criticism of Bosnia's main Bosniak main party, who said he was assaulted earlier this month.

Ivanic, who is the Serb member of the tripartite body, confirmed that Serbia's stance has been forwarded to BiH institutions, which he expects to "finally start working on the case."

Leaders of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia have held their first trilateral meeting in six years to discuss borders, security, and other issues that have undermined relations since the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

After the meeting, held in Mostar, Vucic said he found the fact that "today we have peace" to be the most important point, and described the talks between officials of the three countries as "never sweet and simple."

As he said, "today we have stability and we are strengthening trade and economic relations and connections."

In Mostar, a tripartite meeting of leaders of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia will be held today. Alexander Vucic, Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic and members of the Bosnian collective leadership, Dragan Covic, Bakir Izetbegovic and Mladen Ivanic, will sit at a table to discuss their bilateral relations and their mutual territorial claims.

Bakir Izetbegovic says that Croats in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) "cannot get (their separate) third entity in BiH without conflict and war."

After the 1992-95 war, the country is made up of the Serb Republic (RS), the Serb entity, and the Muslim-Croat Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina (FBiH).