"Croats gave the name to the airport "Franjo Tudjman" to annoy Serbs, Serbs gave name "Nikola Tesla" which annoys Croats. The same goes for the one in Pristina"

The famous British weekly magazine "Economist" did the topic about of a phenomenon of the names of airports on Balkans. They consider that they are getting the names which will annoy the neighbors and as the first example the airport in Zagreb is listed as a "new futuristic construction". 

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- It was renamed after Franjo Tudjman, the father of Croatian movement for Independence. He fought in the bloody war against the Croatian Serbs which were supported by Serbia and who established the short term Serbian republic on about the third of Croatian territory. Most of the Serbs were extradited from Croatia in 1995 - writes the weekly.

- Among the victims of that ethnic cleansing were cousins of the most famous Serb in the world, Nikola Tesla, the scientist. Tesla was born as a Serb in 1856 on the territory of today's Croatian, but he emigrated to America; both Serbs and Croats think he is theirs. The airport in Belgrade carries his name from 2006, which annoys Croats - continues the "Economist".

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The weekly is giving more examples, like the airport in Pristina is named "Adem Jasari", after the leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army who was murdered by Serbian forces. The flights between "Nikola Tesla" and "Adem Jasari", of course, doesn't exist. Jasari was "a hero for Albanians and a criminal for Serbs".

It was all started by Greeks who named the airport in Thessaloniki "Macedonia" in 1992, and Macedonians named the Skopje airport "Alexander the Great in 2007.

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New Macedonian government wishes for better relations with Greece, so it is possible to change the name of the airport in Skopje.

However, it is said that there are exceptions to this practice, so the initiative to name the airport in Sarajevo after Alija Izetbegovic failed, and the airport in Podgorica is simply named Podgorica.

But, its code is still TGD, after the name of Titograd, which was the name of the capital of Montenegro in Yugoslavia.

(Telegraf.co.uk / source: Index.hr)