Albania Prime Minister Edi Rama, in a statement yesterday, the capital Tyrant‘Bektashi sect for the establishment of a sovereign Muslim state similar to the Vatican, this will be done to protect and encourage inter -religious tolerance, “he said.
Vatican model is considered
Rama, from Turkey to Albania to celebrate the 95th anniversary of the transport of the Holy Makam, “History of the Bektashis, the Holy Merkezi of the Bektashi World Center, the Vatican is a strong call to give a status similar to a status,” he said.
“A spiritual state without a police, without an army, without tax”
Stating that the symbolic state will be “wall -free, without police, without an army, tax -free and other features, it will be a headquarters, a spiritual state”. However, there will be no tax and police and will not pose a threat to the sovereignty of Albania. ” Rama did not give details about the timing and stressed that the plan should be approved by the Albanian Parliament.
Rama said that last year, in the east of Albania’s capital, to establish a state to be used as Bektashi spiritual center, and that the Bektashis were scattered in regions such as Albania, Kosovo and Northern Macedonia.
In the 13th century in the Ottoman Empire, the Bektashi Center, which was established under the Sufism, has been in Albania since 1929 because of the decision to close the lodges and lodges with the decree dated 2 September 1925 in the Republic of Turkey.