Albania's Prime Minister wants to give a state and nationhood -- similar to the Vatican in Italy -- to a Muslim minority within the country.

Because just a few weeks ago the prime minister of Albania announced he was introducing legislation to create a brand new ...

Albania's prime minister has revealed plans ... An offshoot of the Sufi sect of Islam, the Bektashi Order was established in the 13th century, and combines "a loose interpretation of the Quran ...

The Bektashi World Centre ... the Bektashis’ leaders moved to Albania. Through their love of the arts, the order’s dervishes have been credited with helping the country shake off the Ottoman ...

In a move that has garnered both intrigue and controversy, Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama has unveiled an unprecedented plan to create the world’s smallest sovereign state for the Bektashi order, a ...

Once the religious faith of the Ottoman military elite, the Bektashi order accepted teachings from many directions, until it was banned there in the 19th century. When Turkey embraced the secular ...

The Albanian government is planning to create a “sovereign state” for the Bektashi, a Sufi Muslim order, modeled after the Vatican, occupying several hectares in the capital city of Tirana.

Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama is considering granting sovereign state status to the world headquarters of Bektashism, a ...

A court in Rome has suspended the approval of detention orders for seven migrants who were relocated last week to a ...

The Italian government is asserting the right to return people to these countries, and this forms the base of their ...

Italian judges Monday rejected the detention of a group of migrants in Italian-run centres in Albania in a fresh blow to Rome by referring the case to Europe's top rights court.