Hasan Prishtina
| Hasan Prishtina | |
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| 8th Prime Minister of Albania | |
| In office 7 December 1921 – 12 December 1921 |
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| Preceded by | Qazim Koculi |
| Succeeded by | Idhomene Kosturi |
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| Religion | Sunni Muslim |
Hasan Prishtina (1873 in Vučitrn,[1] Kosovo Province, Ottoman Empire – 1933) born Hasan Berisha was an Albanian politician, who served as Prime Minister of Albania in December 1921.
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[edit] Biography
He studied politics and law in Istanbul. Born Hasan Berisha[2] he changed his last name into Prishtina when elected a parliament member of the Turkish National Parliament in Istanbul during the Second Constitutional Era of the Ottoman Empire.
After the Ottoman Government did not keep their promises for more rights and independence to the Albania nation, Hasan Prishtina and several other prominent Albanian intellectuals started organizing the Albanian National Movement. He together with Isa Boletini and Bajram Curri took the responsibility to start the Albanian National Movement in Kosovo.
He was elected a Minister in the Albanian government of Ismail Qemali in 1913.
In 1918, Hasan Prishtina, Kadri Prishtina (Hoxhë Kadriu), Bajram Curri and many others created the Committee for the National Defence of Kosovo and had their representatives in Rome and Aania.[3]
Hasan Prishtina was in charge of the delegation of the Committee in December 1919 which represented Albanians for the protection of their rights in the Paris Peace Conference, where he requested the re-unification of Kosovo and Albania.
He was one of the main organizers of the Lushnja Congress in 1920.
Later in 1921 he was elected as the Prime Minister of the Albanian government, but resigned due to disagreements he had with Ahmet Zogu, who was a Minister of Interior at that time. After that he remained just a member of the parliament.
After the establishment of good relations with the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes of 1922 and Ahmet Zogu's government, Hasan Prishtina and many other leaders from Kosovo were persecuted. There are claims that Ahmet Zogu even authorized the Serbian troops to search for him in Albania's territory.[citation needed]
In the end of February 1923, Hasan Prishtina and Bajram Curri organized an uprisal of Albanians in Kosovo, against the Serbian troops installed there. This uprisal was crushed. No assistance was provided by Ahmet Zogu.
After this uprisal, several persecutions of Albanians in Kosovo followed.
Hasan Prishtina is known to have been very rich, and sold almost all his property to finance the education of Albanians from Kosovo in universities around Europe, and for the armed resistance, during all his life.
He was imprisoned by Belgrade for a period, was released in 1931, and was killed in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1933.
[edit] Legacy
Hasan Prishtina is commemorated in Kosovo and Albania. In 1993, when a meeting commemorating the 60th anniversary of his death was convened in Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbian police raided the place and showed machine guns to the participants. Out of 80 participants, 37 were arrested and the rest were beaten for 5 to 15 minutes by police.[4]
[edit] See also
| Preceded by Qazim Koculi |
Prime Minister of Albania 7 December 1921 – 12 December 1921 |
Succeeded by Idhomene Kosturi |
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[edit] References
- ^ Dérens, Jean-Arnault (2006). Kosovo, année zéro. Harvard College Library: Paris Paris-Méditerranée 2006. p. 365. http://books.google.com/books?id=5oppAAAAMAAJ&q=hasan+prishtina+vushtrri&dq=hasan+prishtina+vushtrri&cd=6. Retrieved 2010-05-31.
- ^ Bradt Travel Guide Kosovo. Bradt Travel Guides. 2007. p. 87. ISBN 101841621994. http://books.google.com/books?id=GCRjKdrmqqEC&pg=PA87&dq=Hasan+Prishtina&hl=en&ei=Kf0DTOmuO8SclgfG5pGCDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-thumbnail&resnum=4&ved=0CDgQ6wEwAw#v=onepage&q=Hasan%20Prishtina&f=false. Retrieved 2010-05-31.
- ^ Bradt Travel Guide Kosovo. Bradt Travel Guides. 2007. p. 14. ISBN 101841621994. http://books.google.com/books?id=GCRjKdrmqqEC&pg=PA87&dq=Hasan+Prishtina&hl=en&ei=Kf0DTOmuO8SclgfG5pGCDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-thumbnail&resnum=4&ved=0CDgQ6wEwAw#v=onepage&q=Hasan%20Prishtina&f=false. Retrieved 2010-05-31.
- ^ Human Rights Watch/Helsinki (Organization : U.S.) (1993). Open wounds: human rights abuses in Kosovo. Human Rights Watch. pp. 57–60. http://books.google.com/books?id=tKUqOl1_hb0C&pg=PA57&dq=Hasan+Prishtina&as_brr=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q=Hasan%20Prishtina&f=false. Retrieved 2010-05-31.
[edit] Further reading
- O.S. Pearson, Albania and King Zog, I.B. Tauris. 2005 (ISBN 1-84511-013-7).
