Tanjug said the epicenter of the quake was located near the island of Palagruza in the middle of the Adriatic Sea off the Hercegovina coast.
Mr Mate Granic, Croatia's foreign minister, said yesterday Zagreb had withdrawn about 1,200 troops from western Hercegovina.
As Mr Cetin says, 'Turkey is a Balkan country'. All of the Balkans were Ottoman territory until the 19th century - Bosnia and Hercegovina being lost finally in 1908.