Flag Sefaj and Driton Gashi are fired

Flag Sefaj and Driton Gashi are fired

Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj has fired Interior Minister Flamur Sefaj and AKI chief chief Driton Gashi. His decision came after yesterday's operation conducted by Kosovo Police in co-operation with the Kosovo Intelligence Agency for the deportation of six Turkish citizens from Kosovo to the homeland [...]

His decision came after yesterday's operation conducted by Kosovo Police in co-operation with the Kosovo Intelligence Agency for the deportation of six Turkish citizens from Kosovo to their homeland, Kosovo reports.

The latter worked at the Turkish college “Mehmet Akif” school that belongs to Turkish cleric Fetullah Gulen's school network, which is considered terrorist by Turkey.

For the arrest and accelerated deportation of six Turks had known nothing about the heads of state.

Haradinaj, Thaci and Wessel announced that the operation was unclear and that none of them had had any details of such an act.

Chief Parliamentary Kadri Wessel was the first to criticise authorities for conducting these arrests.

The modern-day arrest of six Turkish citizens, residents with valid permission to stay in Kosovo and employees at the “College Mehmet Akif”, which is accredited according to Kosovo's respective standards, represents neither the proper form of development of rule of law nor the necessary consolidation of democracy”.

The taking of such actions without respect for relevant procedures and lack of transparency leaves considerable space for the authorities' arbitrary actions in question”.

“As a democratic state, Kosovo has institutionally to address the legal responsibility of involved acts in this case. Likewise, the arrest of foreign nationals in Fagardy for baseless allegations does not correspond to the European values Kosovo” should represent, Wessel had written on his Facebook profile.

After Wessel has also reacted to Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, who has expressed his confusion about the operation.

Under an operation undertaken by AKI in co-operation with the Kosovo Police have been banned and 6 Turkish citizens infiltrated. There are some elements that make this operation unclear to the emergency penetration”.

“As Kosovo's prime minister, not being informed by any local institution for their ban and deportation, I will act in accordance with constitutional and legal responsibilities regarding this move and irregularities about this”, Haradinaj had written on his Facebook profile.

The first member of the state, Hashim Thaci, has reacted last to the AKI and Police operation.

“Kosovo is a democratic state built in accordance with the highest democratic standards, which above all else respect the individual rights of any human, regardless of ethnic affiliation, political or ideological beliefs”.

This principle, embedded in our Constitution and laws, remains indisposed by no one and is the duty of our state institutions to implement it”.

We are disappointed because our relevant institutions, for reasons that remain to be clarified to the end, have failed to protect these principles that connect with the human rights of foreign citizens living and working in our country”.

I am informed by competent bodies after the event that six citizens have infiltrated Turkey today with the reasoning that they had no permission to stay in Kosovo”.

“We now need to clarify the reasons that have led up to the penetration of these Turkish citizens to Turkey”, Thaci had written on his Facebook account.

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