Proposal for 'Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order', a Vatican-style enclave, has sparked confusion, praise and heated debate

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama wants to establish a sovereign Muslim mini-state within his country based on the model of the Vatican. It would be created in Albania's capital Tirana and run by the Muslim Bektashi order.

Albania is planning to create the "Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order," a Muslim microstate along the lines of the Vatican City in Rome.

Prime Minister Rama announced plans to establish a Muslim state modeled after the Vatican in the capital city of Tirana, reports the American daily "New York Times." This idea promotes religious tolerance,

Albania's bold project aims to create the Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order, a 10-hectare moderate Muslim microstate, similar to the Vatican. The goal of Prime Minister Edi Rama. Here's who the Be

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama announced on Sunday during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly's Summit of the Future an ambitious initiative to create a Bektashi sovereign state

The territory of the proposed new Islamist state is a compound in a low-rent residential district of eastern Tirana. It is just a quarter of the size of Vatican City, currently the world's smallest country, governed by the pope, an absolute monarch.

The tiny Vatican-like enclave within Albania’s capital Tirana will serve as the political home for Bektashi Muslims – the fourth largest religious community in Albania after Sunni Muslims, Orthodox Ch

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has announced plans to transform the Tirana-based Bektashi Muslims into a sovereign state.

Albanian prime minister Edi Rama said the government is negotiating with members of the Bektashi, a Shiite Sufi Islamic order, to turn their headquarters in Tirana into a small sovereign state.

Prime Minister Edi Rama says he wants to give members of the Bektashi, a Shiite Sufi order, their own Vatican-style enclave as a way of promoting religious tolerance.