Sadriu: BIK has not been host of victory prayer in Prizren

“Pray, which is organised in the mosque “Sinan Pasha” by the Turkish community, which has been organised by Turkey's Embassy with the Turkish community and support, support of the Turkish KFOR contingent, which is in Kosovo and which has led them to religious issues near Turkey's Embassy, which have made a prayer after the Jastian prayer, and as the entire mosque is a place of prayer are built even the churches and synagogues, where people go and pray to the creator of their different affairs. In this case, we see it as such an organisation that has organised the Turkish community in support of their Turkish brothers in Turkey, nothing more than this”, Sadriu said.

While asked whether such prayers should be organised by the Kurdish Muslims of Syria, he said he sees nothing wrong as the organisation is done by the Turkish community and that mosques are places where Muslims can pray.

I see these are organised as a Muslim community, as Turks who have seen fit to make such a prayer and absolutely see nothing more of it. I said the mosque is a place of prayer, and there Muslims pray”, Sadriu said.

He also said this is not BIK's organisation and has dismissed that in Kosovo there are Daynets.

I'm sorry that this has been the case in the media, it has come out and I've heard firsthand that the Kosovo Islamic Community has organised this. It is not BIK's organisation as I said before is the organisation of the Turkish community in co-operation with the embassy and the Turkish KFOR contingent here in Kosovo. See the Turkish Diyanetti known as what you said is the same as the BIK who is here responsible for organising and overseeing Islamic religious life in Kosovo. I said, Turkey's embassy by its staff also has its attaché on religious issues representing Turkey's state on issues. This is it, there's no Diyanette here”, Sadriu said.

Sadriu added that there are no foreign employees in BIK, but all employed are of Kosovo's citizenship.

This is the particular one with which we stand out and define ourselves as BIK, where within the BIK institution there is no official outside Kosovo citizens or subjects. Although in religious communities we have serving, in BIK we've always said there's no employees, no employees, no imam that's outside the subjects of Kosovo”, Sadriu said.

While asking whether BIK is mixing in foreign policy, he said it does not mix, as they are only on religious issues.

I don't know. I don't care. On political issues don't mess with us. We are on religious issues that we are in charge of and respond to. Even these questions don't belong to us, they're for other institutions. I said earlier that BIK has organization here, and absolutely this has nothing to do with us, so I don't see reason for something about this to answer”, Sadriu said.

He has finally said that in BIK as an integral part other than other Roma, Bosnian communities are Turks.

And let's not forget that the integral part of the Islamic Community of Kosovo is the Turkish community, which operate under the BIK umbrella, the same as Bosniaks, Gorani, Roma, Aztecs, are integral parts of BIK, are the following mosques, performing rituals in mosques. We cannot absolutely deny them, prevent them from going to pray and pray as they did after prayer, have been organisation, have chanted the Koran have prayed for their brothers, as I think we would have done the same as Albanians for our Albanian brothers, so I see in this dispute all this development, nothing more”, said Sadriu.

At the “Sinan Pasha” mosque in Prizren last Wednesday has been carried out the so-called “Victory Prayer”, in support of Turkey's Armed Forces, which have launched Operation “The WilliDega against Kurdish positions in the African region of Syria.

So said a report by the Turkish news agency Anadolu, under which “victory prayer” was carried out after the week's prayer with the reading of the El-Feth 911 chapters.

The programme is led by Mustafa Tombas, who is said to be the representative of Diyaneti and imam at Prizren's {Sinan Pasha] mosque. In this programme, Turkey's ambassador to Pristina, Kivilcım Kilic and Turkey's general consulate in Prizren, Eylem Altunya, has also been present, says Anadolu's announcement.

But according to this agency, this organisation was made in the organisation of the Islamic Community of Kosovo and the Headship of Religious Affairs of the Republic of Turkey (Diyanet). The Islamic Community, officially so far, has not denied this news.