Emoral of Shame for Turkish Fist

Funny and disgusting. What kind of work do we have to transfer to our capital to commemorate an event that is completely Turkish?

We are not Turkey's province, nor the Sultan's chip. In many ways, though, we are a foolish people.

In Hong Kong, residents of that small country have been protesting months and months because they refuse that citizens who may be punished in Hong Kong for acts that insult or touch China, move, be tried and suffer punishment in China.

So they reject the power of the center they owned after England left that country. While we have nothing to transfer Erdogan's totalitarian and dictatorial emotions to our country. The same one, Erdogan, forced Berisha many years ago to remove Skenderbe from the Palace of Brigades when he visited that seat at the official reception.

I've said it before and over and over again now that Edi Rama is the prime minister who, mostly, has contributed to the revitalism of the Albanian issue and has helped substantially to increase the performance of the Albanian state.

The visit to Belgrade, the rise in performance with the Greek government on maritime borders and the thorny issue, the contribution to uniting the Albanian factor in Macedonia and Montenegro, as well as dignified presentations on visits outside Albania, have made Edi Rama the most dignified prime minister of the transition period. With what happened in Tirana today, however, he put himself on a spot that is hard to clear.

I understand very well that this is a sporadic concession without any long-term consequences. Albania does not lose its independence, language or flag and can benefit from economic relations with rich Turkey. I remember that a street or the only road that Luluzim Basha laid when he was mayor when you climb from the Palace of Brigades and deviate from the residence of the American Embassy, has an Arabic name, if I'm not mistaken «Kuwait» or something else.

Moving symbols, both national and domestic, is a mark of culture. Even the Skenderbeu bust is located in countries that have nothing to do with this part of Albanian history, as in Geneva, the word comes, or in other countries. While the transfer of an internal event, too unintelligible as the Turkish coup, to the hills of Lake, Tirana, where Albanian fathers are resting, is a serious insult to us all.

Those killed in Turkey in that coup have nothing to do with Albania and with no ideal of our own. The sight of this act is questionable, and, most importantly, it makes you think it is an expansion of Erdogan's triumphal emotion over a territory he calls in an undertone as part of the Great Empire.

I'm referring to a fact that I've lived for myself. When I carried out a documentary about the great Istanbul Albanians who gathered there and created the Albanian alphabet, I also visited the mosque where Hoxha Tahsini served, which was where Christopforide, Sami Frasher, Pasko Vasa, Jan Wreto and, of course, Hasan Tahsini and many others gathered for days to decide what the Albanian alphabet would be like.

I called that place the first headquarters of the Albanian Academy. However, by the time I arrived, that country was returning to an Istanbul private university. No sign, no memorial plaque.

I found representatives of Istanbul City Hall and told them the story. They, not only didn't take my word, but they told me it doesn't matter to Istanbul. Let a representative from the Foreign Ministry tell me what will happen if we seek to get to know each other in Istanbul and sign the sites and signs that defined our Renaissance? These Turks today will call us iredentists.

Who tells me where the Frasher brothers' house is today? Do you know that our greatest ideologist, Sami Frashire, is remembered in Istanbul alone in the name of an elementary school?

Therefore, our folly in exchanging Erdogan's dictatorial and totalitarian emotions for a handful of money or investments is intellectual misery and assassinations in national identity