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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Albania Thursday on the first stop ... to boost ties with a region once ruled by the Ottoman empire. Erdogan will inaugurate the Great Mosque ...

Albania plans to establish a sovereign Muslim ... The order was founded in the 13th century in the Ottoman Empire and is ...

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TIRANA, (Reuters) – Albania will create a sovereign Muslim state in Tirana for the Bektashi religious order, along the lines of the Vatican in Rome, to preserve and promote religious ...

Founded in the Ottoman Empire in the thirteenth century as an offshoot of Sufism, the Bektashi order has been headquartered in Albania since 1929 after the newly created Turkish Republic of Kemal ...