Today, 103 years from the death of Ismail Kemal

He was born in Vlora in 1844, son of Mahmut Nedim Bey. He conducted elementary school in his hometown. He then continued in Zosima High School in Iiania, where he learned ancient Greek, Latin, and French. In 1860, at an early age, only when he was 16, he started working for the Office for Translations of the High Gate in Istanbul.

Until 1900 Ismail Kemal worked on various duties in the Ottoman administration, in Villajet, Ilanina (1862), on the Danube Villajet (1866-1876), in Filibe (1876), at Mardin 1883), in Baku (1884-1889), in Beirut (1889).

In 1900, when he was in charge of the kamamam in Kesrije, the persecution of collaboration with xhonthurs and ideas to achieve an Albanian organization left the post, fled to Greece, and moved from there to Europe. In the trial in absentia, he was sentenced to death.

In 1902 Ismail Kemal attended the trumpet congress that was organised under the direction of Prince Sabahedin and Lutfuh in Paris. Only after the constitution's re-launch (1908) Ismail Kemal returned from Europe. In the elections, which took place after the resalth of the Constitution, Ismail Kemal was elected deputy of Berat and became part of the opposition party “Osmanalıar Fırkası”

During the period of Albanian uprisings against violence exercised by the government's economic administration, Ismail Kemal sought to provide support from European states to create an autonomous administration within the Ottoman Empire.

In the Great Malesia (11) uprising, he went to Cetinje in Montenegro, where at his initiative the 12-point Greek Assembly memorandum was also signed. An autonomy of Albanians within the Ottoman Empire was achieved in the 1912 uprising, but the beginning of the Balkan War not only interrupted the formation of such a structure but also brought the conquest and fragmentation of Albanian trends. Ismail Kemal led the movement and gathering that was held on the Vlora family's Sararies, where Albania's Independence was declared on November 28, 1912 and elected chairman of the Vlora Interim Government.

In March 1913, through Duke de Montensier, he moved to Brindisi and later visited the capital of European states to secure support for Albania's case at the Ambassador Conference in London. On January 22, 1914, Ismail Kemal resigned from the International Commission, handed over power to the International Commission, and departed with his family to France.

He changed his life on January 24, 1919, in Perugia, and on February 12, he was buried in the courtyard of Tecea in Kanini, over Vlora. /kp