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I can also inform the esteemed gathering about the promotion of thisbook that vvill take place in Belgrade very soon.Although I am engaged in politics, I shall not speak from that aspecteither. I am going to speak simply as a man, a citizen of Serbia and amember of the same civilizational space as Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, bornin Thessaloniki, educated in Bitola.About my political beliefs, I shall only say that their basic ideas isthe idea of a united Europe. In that united, civil, democratic Europe, thatvvill respect ali the nations, religions, cultures and traditions of itscitizens, there is enough room both for Serbs and for Turks. Europevvithout Serbia and Turkey cannot be vvhole or maintainable becausethere is no durable peace, security and stability, economic prosperity,social stability and security, no human rights or political freedoms,simply no human happiness and good life for ali the citizens vvithout theunited Europe. Nor is there a real influence of its citizens, nations andstates upon the international economic and political developments, northe necessary authority in passing the most important global economicand political decisions.Such a political credo is also based upon my personal stand that theplanet Earth is the common home to ali the people to vvhom it has beenlended and that they must respect it and develop it vvith due care, for thesake of their ovvn survival and the future of their successors.The contemporary technology, especially computers and informaticshas enabled even today tha prophetic visions about this planet as a"global village" to come true. Thanks to the Internet, the vvhole vvorldis present in every house and vve can be present in any part of thevvorld.Ali of my understanding of Atatürk's achievements can be put asone admiration ond one regret.The admiration is for the greatness and povver of Mustafa Kemal, arobust boy, a conspirator, commander of units never defeated, a reformistand creator of the 'Turkish miracle", vvho vvas capable at vvatersheds ofhistory to turn the course of the ship of the Turkish nation and state to theWest, tovvards the civilization vvhere his people belonged and the spacecovered by the Turkish state.I personally share the sympathies expressed for the Turks andAtatürk, their father, by Miodrag Mihailovic-Svetovski, a prominent836