Bosniaks do you feel closer to Turks or to Albanians?

[Herr Abubu]

Lol yep I am fake Turk because Real Turk wouldn't say this and continue to sleep and be used. It's true I am not like average low IQ people around. Ad hominem attacks won't change facts though. Worry not Albos, within two days Turks will forget everything. Albos and some other ethniks will continue to organize themselves by using our resources against us. They will tell Turks not to check people's background but they will themselves secretly organize based on race and self interest of their own communities. Albos work to destroy our ethnic organizations but we Stupid Turks (Etrak bi idrak) will support Albanians and their ethno causes in the Balkans.

Man, it's like this in every country with large ethnic minorities. Personally I don't dislike Turks, and I get where you're coming from, but this is what's going to happen to any country that accepts large amount of immigrants with incompatible cultures. Turks have to be smarter when it comes to this.

[Chocolate_Hound]

I prefer Albanians to Bosniaks, they actually have their own ethnicity. Bosniaks are just a tiny minority of Yugoslavs holding on to Islam for some strange reason I can't understand. There's like what, 2 million of them? Just ditch it FFS.

[Hurrem sultana]

Bosniaks prefer Turks,they generally look down on Albanians,see them as uneducated and problematic..so yeah,they prefer turks

[RogueState]

Bosniaks have a superiority complex (like all EX-YU communities) towards Albanians that they perceive as backward, patriarchal, tough, harsh, aggressive, mafia-type, ...; and have less to no prejudices towards Turks (perceived as a friendly nation)

But that's just a false expressed consciousness, if you look closer to real anthropological concept of lifestyle, culture, behavior, eating habits, ... that is often unsaid and unconscious, Bosniaks and Albanians share more than they think together since they are part of the wider Balkan cultural area.

[Hurrem sultana]

Bosniaks have a superiority complex (like all EX-YU communities) towards Albanians that they perceive as backward, patriarchal, tough, harsh, aggressive, mafia-type, ...; and have less to no prejudices towards Turks (perceived as a friendly nation)

But that's just a false expressed consciousness, if you look closer to real anthropological concept of lifestyle, culture, behavior, eating habits, ... that is often unsaid and unconscious, Bosniaks and Albanians share more than they think together since they are part of the wider Balkan cultural area.

Sure I agree with you,and in fact i think Albanians and Bosniaks should be more united in the Balkans as the 2 only majority muslim peoples

[RogueState]

Sure I agree with you,and in fact i think Albanians and Bosniaks should be more united in the Balkans as the 2 only majority muslim peoples

For many Albanians, Muslim identity is not central and ethnic affiliation is more important ("first Albanian, then Muslim"), even if it differs from region (least religious Albania, then middle Kosovo, then more religious among Macedonian Albanians - Macedonian Albanians having btw the best relationships with Turks, Bosniaks, Torbesi, Goranci and Pomaks)

This is why Albanians simply don't understand the conflicts between Croats, Serbs and Bosniaks, because for them, in their eyes, it's all same South Slavic people, just divided by religion.

But following the logic of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", Albanians have sympathy for Bosniaks (because also victims of Serbs) more than for religious reason, but shared "oppression" from Serbs. It explains also why Albanians and Croats support each other.