Our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories this week includes a proposed ‘Vatican-style’ micro-state for the Bektashi ...

TIRANA, Albania: Albania's Tirana-based Bektashi Muslims, an Islamic Sufi order, would be granted sovereignty from the ...

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama wants to establish a sovereign Muslim mini-state within his country based on the model of ...

The Bektashi Order would be able to govern religious and administrative issues on their own, without Albania's involvement.

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama announced on Sunday during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly's Summit of the ...

Behind Edi Rama’s announcement of a Vatican-type ‘microstate’ for the Bektashi movement in Tirana, some critics of his rule ...

Albania plans to create its own Vatican. This one, however, will be Muslim. The New York Times reported that Albanian Prime ...

District 2, perhaps the most geographically diverse district, stretches from Capitola coastward to Pajaro Dunes, capturing ...

Albania plans to establish a sovereign Muslim microstate within its borders run by a Sufi sect known for promoting "religious ...

Albania is planning to create the "Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order," a Muslim microstate along the lines of the Vatican ...

Albania's Prime Minister, Edi Rama, announced plans to transform the Bektashi Muslims into a sovereign state based in Tirana, aiming to promote moderation, tolerance, and coexistence. The new entity ...