The battle for name in the international arena, will the UPI be removed name “Hasan Pristina”?

Switching UP's name is a proposal that has provided the university's rector, Qerim Qerim. According to him, the reason for the change is due to the confusion of the name in the international arena.

“We are considering restoring the original name that had been given prior to the recent amendment of the statute, the University of Pristina. There is also a university in Mitrovica, in the Serbian language, which also claims the name Pristina University, and this has created confusion”, the media director had said.

There were many reactions to this proposal, even to challenge, at the beginning of May, a symbolic action has taken place before the reactor. The action was organised by the “Foundation,hasan Pristina” in co-operation with several other associations.

Professor Bujar Dugolli had also attended the event. He said Hasan Pristina's figure is a bright figure that no one has been able to dispute.

The names of patriots and intellectuals, who have been smelting for their homeland”, he said.

For the initiative of Rector Qerimi, politicalologist Bardhil Mahmut has reacted today. He has said that trying to change the name is the biggest nonsense.

The efforts that through the changes in the Pristina University statute are removed from “Hasan Pristina” by his reasoning that he supposedly creates inaccuracies because a university created by criminal structures installed in the town of Mitrovica by Slobodan Milosevic bears the name “Pristina University” is the greatest absurd that has ever produced leadership of the highest educational institution in Kosovo”, Mahmut wrote.

Mahmut has said the illegal university in the north must be delegated.

“Instead of the comprehensive mobilization of state and university institutions for the complete delegation of the illegal university in the north of the country, the proposal comes up that from the appointment of Pristina University Hasan Pristina to remove the name of one of the most prominent figures in Albanian national history, which is synonymous with our citizenship”, he wrote.

Hasan Pristina's grandson Mehmeti, meanwhile director of the “Haasan Pristina” Foundation, has said they have come to reject the removal of Hasan Pristina's appointment from Pristina University.

He has stated that the Rector Government initiative should end with his departure, writes

The fact that this issue causes conflict or causes problems in international ranking of scientific works is groundless. On this argument I'm being taken from 2013 when the reactor has shown this indignation, this dissatisfaction with the appointment... so today the sector has come to say stop, don't touch us Hasan Pristina... an initiative of a newly-elected reactor should end with his departure because he has started reform again. The drastic reforms are needed but should start well and not with the removal of his name“, he said.

Mahmut said it is dangerous and harmful the idea of changing UP's name.

Today during the day, the Express newspaper tried to get a promotion from the Rector Qerim, but has not responded to editorial calls.