Albania to Create Vatican City-style Microstate for Islamic Sufi Sect | Vantage with Palki Sharma

Albania's Prime Minister, Edi Rama, has announced plans to create a new microstate within his country's capital, Tirana. The state will be modelled on Vatican City. It will become a sovereign state for an Islamic Mystic Sufi Sect called the Bektashi Order. The Bektashis are known for their religious tolerance and devotion to dervishes. Rama says the new state will be a centre of moderation and peaceful coexistence. But there is already pushback against this plan by Albanian Muslims and Turkish Bektashis.

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