About 100 Kosovo students remain in Turkey

Triga Dresaj is one of the many Kosovo students who have remained in Turkey since the appearance of the new coronary pandemic.

It has remained isolated in Ankara since the university where it studied suspended activity as a result of Turkish government measures in the fight against the distribution of the new coronary.

Over the past weeks, Tringa says he has contacted the Kosovo Embassy many times in Turkey, seeking opportunity to return to Kosovo.

“We have made individual and group requests through the Student Union of Albanians in Turkey at the Kosovo Embassy that may, in group form, make a solution. The embassy's response has been that it is nothing in our hands, and the only thing we can do is to pressure the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo to accomplish a” flight.

That flight is not known when it will be, but in a period as fast as possible. That flight was accomplished last week, but on that flight, people who were hospitalised in Turkey and people left without documentation have had priority and about five students who have had health needs”, Dresaj says.

Kosovo students in Turkey have been sent to dormitories

Over the past two months, Tringa has been in solitary confinement for her and other students since they felt alone in the time of pandemic.

We've always had the problem in mind that if something happened to us, who would have been close to us to take care of us, a possible infection from the virus, knowing we had continued contact with other people before the 11x1 virus spread, says Dress.

Same as Tringa, about 100 other Kosovo students remain in Turkey.

Most of them are located in student dorms by Turkish authorities.

Like many other countries in the world, Turkish institutions also faced new pandemics and coronarys.

Universitys were closed throughout Turkey and measures of limiting the movement were imposed.

Following the addition of confirmed cases with Corleone, Turkish institutions put international students in dormitories.

In such a dorm in Istanbul, Swana Djurdevic is staying isolated.

Swana says she has made an official request for return to Kosovo, as she has been afraid to remain alone during the pandemic in Turkey.

You should think a little more about students. Our family normally that all the time they've been very worried and they're still worried about our fate about what's going to happen to us, whether we're going to come back or stay in Turkey. But, what we've done is that we've run you to the embassy right away, personally I've directed you a month and a half ago through email then I've called many times asking them and telling you that we don't have the other door and that you're the ones to inform us and deal with us”, says Djurdjevic.

Swana says she would be very happy if Kosovo institutions were to enable her to return home.

Despite Kosovo students' calls for return from Turkey, this is not expected to happen, at least in the next two weeks.

Flights are expected from Sweden, the US, Germany

In the Ministry of Transport, they say they are familiar with student demands, but that currently it is impossible to organise a flight with Turkey.

Infrastructure Minister Alban Zogaj's cabinet chief, Alban Zogaj, says several flights with other states are planned before Turkey's turn.

Zogaj says that in return people who have been in more emergency situations have had priority than students.

We had a flight from Turkey. There have been many health cases, and now we are planning on our next flight, but before Turkey we have the United States of America there are students and high school students. So this first week of May is Sweden with the US and a flight with Germany. So, Turkey's next flight is late. Through the embassies we're trying to access cases that are most urgent. The more urgent the case, the higher the priority. Emergency cases are high, especially health cases”, Zogaj says.

Zogaj says the return is also determined by countries available to quarantine.

According to the rules in effect, any person returning from foreign countries to Kosovo is obliged to stay 14 days at the Students Centre in Pristina as a precaution against the possibility of spreading corruption.

In addition to Turkey, many Kosovo students have remained in other countries of the world because of the cuts in airlines and the closing of borders.

The Transport Ministry is currently organising flights but still many citizens remain waiting to return to their country.