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Can terrorism throw Europe off balance?

After the killing of Russia’s ambassador to Turkey at an exhibition in Ankara and the terrorist attack when an articulated lorry ploughed into a busy Christmas market in the heart of Berlin, killing 12 people and injuring 48, the question is whether these developments will significantly influence geopolitical relations.

Russia and Turkey will overcome the crisis

Analyst Miroslav Lazanski told CdM that the ambassador’s murder would have no impact on geopolitical relations.

“That is a terrorist act and I think that Russia and Turkey will overcome the incident. This is in fact a pretext for improving cooperation between Russia and Turkey in the fight against terrorism,” said Lazanski.

Commenting on the possibility of misinterpreting the assassination as a provocation of some of the NATO countries, Lazanski says:

“This is a terrorist attack of Islamic militants and it should not be called into question,” he said.

A serious attack which won’t shake the world

Military analyst Aleksandar Radic said he did not believe that the terrorist campaigns in Turkey and Germany would affect either the global balance or the situation in the region.

“What happened in Turkey is a serious terrorist attack, but it will not lead to changes in the global balance. Russia has developed a foreign policy network that operates under clearly defined tasks and they will continue to operate now in the Middle East as they did so far,” Radic said.

Asked whether the Russia’s ambassador’s assassination would cause Russia to change its influence on Turkey, Radic pointed out that nothing would change.

“These are independent operations. They have resources which they direct to Montenegro and resources which they directed to Turkey. Russia is a large country and it doesn’t represent a problem to it to be active on several sides,” Radic said.

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