In our recent analysis titled “Turkey Assumed the Chairmanship-In-Office  of the South East Europe Cooperation Process (SEECP)”, we referred to  the 1934 Pact of Balkan Entente (shortly 1934 Balkan Pact) and described  this treaty as the precursor of the South-East Europe Cooperation  Process.  In this context, we emphasized that the Balkans is the core of the  “South East Europe” sub-region of Europe. Geographically, this subregion  is fundamentally and primarily coterminous with the Balkan Peninsula,  hence, is historically known as the Balkans. Historian Maria Todorova,  who is well known for her work on the history of the Balkans, in titled  book “Imagining the Balkans”, elaborately elucidates the Turkish roots  of the toponym “Balkans” and explains  how the terms of  “Southeastern  Europe” and “Balkans” are used interchangeably.