Only these will make it possible to combat infiltrated mafia groups in power , avoid fraud and manipulation by mass of the people . This requires time , patience and great devotion , because the action against the other side is very powerful , taking into account the strong material base have already created the dishonored . As will be possible to do it , can only hope , but I think that any kind of Euro - Atlantic integration can not happen without this great debacle . Kosovo needs political class that reflects the needs and demands of the people, not for the political elite aimed at maintaining influence with elected unconditionally and tools .
Andrea Stefani " Remember, Turkey is Kosovo and Kosovo is Turkey " ! This statement of Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan has raised many conflicting reactions in Kosovo and Albania . And not unjustly . Because the statement is absurd not only for today's stage when nations are clearly defined , even stern , but she could not stand the historical background of trying to borrow . Meanwhile , as part of a neo - Ottoman diplomacy , the statement can not hide dot foundation of a pan - Islamic solidarity can not rip with the orientation of Kosovo , Albania , Turkey and even themselves , towards integration with the EU that is a secular political process , that is indifferent to religious differences .
Kosovo has historically been Turkey during centuries of Ottoman rule , for the simple fact that it was not Turkey Turkey itself . As Bernard Lewis has argued in his book "The Birth of Modern Turkey " , we had a process of removal of the Ottoman Empire and Turkish identity shift towards an Islamic identity . According to him , " The Ottoman writings , by the end of the nineteenth century and many of them later , the word " Turkey " is not used ." The word used to indicate the country was " Vatan " , while showing the nation what " Millet " , but they took away the meaning later and still preserve that . " Vatan " was used more for home , village , city , province . While the term " Millet " will be used to show religious communities organized and legally recognized . " The Emperor had a Muslim Millet , Millett but not Turkish , Arabic , or Kurdish , there Milleti Greek , Armenian and Jewish , but as a religious community and not as ethnic nations ... I would expect a relatively late date , the idea occurred to national units , which transcend religious differences . " Middle of the Turkish national consciousness almost corresponds with the fall of the Ottoman Empire . Therefore neither that Turkey can not Kosovo or Kosovo , Turkey . How that Empire had Turkey . When born Turkey , Kosovo turned her face as Albania . The only possibility to build an identity revoking Kosovo Turkey - Ottoman tradition , is the interpretation of terms Vatan and Millet as a community of all Ottoman citizens regardless of religion , in the sense that they were in the Decree of the Rose Garden in 1839 . But , in this case , Erdogan could claim that not only Kosovo , but Serbia , Greece is Turkey ! Then remains only a possibility , even though it 's inaccurate , to borrow the artificial identity Kosovo - Turkey from the Ottoman past .