Egemenlik Bağlamında Srebrenitsa Katliamı ve Dayton Antlaşması

Abstract

The Srebrenica massacre happened in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995 followed by the Dayton Treaty, and this study tries to analyze the treaty in the concept of sovereignty. It also evaluates the views and conversations of Bosnian leader Aliya Izetbegovic before and after the war, who signed the treaty and lead during the war. It tries to find an answer to the question of whether the treaty had a positive or negative outcome for the sovereignty of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a nation-state. This study focuses on the Srebrenica massacre, its importance and the developments that occurred after. The literature related to this subject is transferred over the concepts of power and sovereignty, which are indispensable for being a sovereign state and have rich definitions in the field of social sciences. The study discusses the post-Balkanization of erstwhile Yugoslavia and whether the Dayton Treaty aided the stability of the region which was divided into smaller nation-states. It reflects on the unique troika-member presidential system and how it has led to the cementation of specific ethnic and religious groupings due to the implementation of the treaty. The study also gives a demographic character of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the war that resulted in a genocide of at least 8000 Muslims.