Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama wants to establish a sovereign Muslim mini-state within his country based on the model of ...

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

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

The tiny Vatican-like enclave within Albania’s capital Tirana will serve as the political home for Bektashi Muslims – the ...

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

The territory of the proposed new Islamist state is a compound in a low-rent residential district of eastern Tirana. It is ...

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama announced on Sunday during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly's Summit of the ...

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

Albania's bold project aims to create the Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order, a 10-hectare moderate Muslim microstate, ...

If all goes to plan, the so-called Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order will become the world's smallest state, just a ...

The New York Times reported that Albania's prime minister, Edi Rama, will announce plans for a sovereign microstate within ...