albanian prominence in ottoman empire, modern turkey, and albanian true identity

A PANEL ON THE 141ST ANNIVERSSARY OF MEHMET AKIF ERSOY’S BIRTHDAY

University “Luigj Gurakuqi”, Shkodra, 19 December, 2014

National Museum of Tirana, Tirana, 20 December, 2014 Republic of Albania

Isa MULAJE-mail: [email protected]

The Contribution of Mulaj Family in Ottoman Empire, Modern Turkey, and Shaping of True Albanian Identity

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Content of presentation

1. What is the origin of today Albanians in Shushica of Istog?1.1. Who was Tahir Efendi, the father of Mehmet Akif?1.2. Selim, the “King’s fighter” and Mehmet Akif’s uncle son

2. False identity of Albanians: What modern Albanians do not have as their own?

3. Archaeological discoveries prove a different identity of Albanians3.1. The cause and the factor why Albanians exist today, is the Ottoman Empire

4. The status of Mehmet Akif in Turkey and among Albanians

4.1. Mehmet Akif, not Mustafa Kemal can be Ataturk

4.2. Mehmet Akif, not Ismail Qemali is an Albanian patriot

4.3. Mehmet Akif, not Naim Frashëri is the National Poet of Albanians

5. Conclusions

1. What is the origin of today Albanians in Shushitsaof Istog?

Figure 1: Names of family heads and their fathers in Shushitsa in 1485; 38 households, all of them Slavs/Serbs. As of 2014, Shushitsa had 300 households, all of them Albanians. Kosovo Albanians are newcomers in Kosovo from Albania

Source: Pulaha, Selami (1974), Defteri i regjistrimit të sanxhakut të Shkodrës i vitit 1485 (Defter-Census of Shkodra Sanjak Households of 1485), Tiranë: Akademia e Shkencave dhe Arteve të R. P. Të Shqipërisë, Instituti i Historisë, f. 202.

1.1. Who was Tahir Efendi, the father of Mehmet Akif?

HAYREDIN ASLAN REXHA RRUSTEM (in TurkeyTurqi)

Demaj Gashi (Lutogllavë), Avdyl Halili + Albania

NIKA (NICK)

MEHMET (MOHAMMED)ISMAIL (Ibrahimaj, Nimanaj, Nekaj, Halilaj, Hajdinaj, Sadikaj)

HYSEN (HUSSEIN)

MUSA (MOSES) (Salihaj of Lower Shushitsa)

ZEKA (Zekaj of Upper Shushitsa and Moystir)

PALI (PAUL)

MULA, ca. 1760-70 in Shushica

Genealogical tree of Mulaj family and of Mehmet Akif (1)


HAYREDIN (OF MULA)

2. Halit1. Sadik 3. Salih 4.Bajrami (no heirs)

5. Deli 6. Demir (no heirs)

7. Tahir1826-1888

Pajazit

Fazli (committed suicide , left no heirs)

Ali (with one eye gauged out in Podgoritsa prison)

Sadik (no heirs)

Rama

Sadiku Imer

Arlinda, Rama, Valbona, Drilon

Albana, Afërdita, Blerta, Graniti,Besnik

Zoja (Suhogërll), Gjyla (Rakosh)

Shaha (married in Shushits)

Raba (married in Peja)


2. Halit (of Hayredin)

Shaban Rexha (in Turkey)

Selim (1866-1951), “Kings Fighter”, no heirs

Hayredin Misin (inTurkey)

Zeneli (no heirs)

Nazif (captain of Dardanelles Fleet)

Binak

Mala (massacred by Serbs in Skoyevcwood)

Adam 1929-

Rexhepi

Can

Shaban

Dauti

Ismail (Dush)

Mihane, Selim, Tahir, Elfete, Isa, Shehrie

Jeton, Driton, Mentor, Kujtim, Vlora

Luard, Lavdie, Dëshira, Dafina

Rigon, Kaltrina

Safet Asmir, Argjend

Girls: Sofa, Zuka, Hyla,Ruka, Hyka

Girls: Aza, Zelfia

Daughters: Aisha (the mother of Lam

Ozdrim), Kaya (married in Tushila)

Ryva (married in Gostivar)

Gjyla (married in Kalican) Niman, Malush, Muhamet, Zymber

Xhema

Zyrafet (married in Uça)

Beqir1892-1967

3. Salih (of Hayredin)

Dervish Ibish Rama Nuhi Mahmut (murdered by Serbs)

Sherif (no heirs)

Raza (mother of Imer Shaban

- Ozdrim)

Qerim (no heirs)Ajeti (killed in Kaliçan) Mana (married in

Shushitsa); Fana (married in Ozdrim)

Muja (no heirs)

Zoja (married in Lower Istog)

Deli

Adem, Salih, Musa, Kamer, Zymer

Zyla (mother of Bayram Kadria) – Lower Istog

Xhemila(married in Kerrnina)

? (married in Sferka)

Ahmet (1903-06.01.1945, Lieutenant of National Front and of 21st Mountain Division “SS Scanderbeg”

Xufa (married in Lower Istog)

Shkurta(married in Lower Istog

Mihane (married in Staradran)

Zoya (e martuar në Staradran)

Hitlere(married in Drenitsa)

Nuhi (With Serbez –Spasenka, third wife)

With Hanife (First wife)

With Kada(second wife)

Ahmet Muhamet Shefqet Ganimete Valbona Fuad


7. Tahir (of Hayredin)1826 (Shushitsa) – 1888 (Istanbul)

Mehmet Akif (1873 – 1936)

Xhemile Feride Suad Ibrahim Naim Emin Tahir

TURKEY

One daughter (her name?)

© Isa Mulaj, 08 December, 2014.

3. False identity of Albanians: What modern Albanians do not have as their own?

• The Albanian national flag is Byzantine-Serb;

• Albanian Nation Anthem is a Romanian march composed by CiprianPorumbescu in 1859. Its Albanian version was written by an Aromanian(Aleksandër Stavre Drenova), but the music remains original Romanian;

• Scanderbeg is the Medieval Serb most tragic figure, who fought for a national Serb cause;

• Albanians emerged as organized people during the joint rule with the Ottomans;

• Albanians were against separation from Ottoman Empire. The declaration of Albania’s independence on 28.11.1912 was illegal from self-determination point of view (only 40 out of 84 delegates voted in favor – not securing the simple majority);

• Albanian historiography is full of myths and fabrications. Many illiterate thieves and bandits are declared “national heroes”

• Stealing of personalities from other cultures and presenting them as Albanian “national figures” (Milos Obilic, Pietro Bogdano, Mother Teresa)

Slanders and lies of Albanians indoctrinated by the historiography and propaganda of Russian-Serb

communism

• Turkey is the greatest enemy of Albanians!

• Turkey is a poor economic country!

– Albanians in Turkey live in deserts and caves eating corn bread accumulated for days and weeks!

• Albanians do not have the right to education and identity in Turkey, they do not enjoy the basic rights guaranteed to ethnic minorities!

• The main cause why Albanians in Europe are poor and backward, is because of Ottoman rule and modern Turkey!

• WHAT IS QUITE THE OPPOSITE SHOCKING TRUTH?

In no corner of the earth Albanians had not been and are not elite like in Turkey (1)

• Turkey is a state of 77 million people, with a GDP per capita of around 20 000 $;

• Kosovo is a pseudo private mafia state with 1.7 million inhabitants, less than 9 000 $ per capita, with massive unemployment and widespread poverty, run by bandits, vagabonds, criminals, prostitutes and illiterates;

• Kosovo does not have its own army, while Turkey has the second largest army in NATO (after the United States), with 90 nuclear bombs, 40 of which can be delivered by the Turkish Air Force with the approval by NATO;

• Albanians in Turkey do not have the status of a national minority but of decision makers and rulers of 77 millions;

• The contribution and power of Albanians in the state of Turkey is proportionally higher than of the Jews in the United States.

• The true conquerors of the Balkans up to the Siege of Vienna (led by Albanian Kara Mustafa Pasha) were Ottoman Albanians;

• The crusade of Scanderg was destroyed and annihilated by Albanians:

– Ballaban Badera, the first man who climbed the walls of Constantinople in 1453; Sanjabey (Governor) of Ohrid. His Albanian name was Mikel - Michael.

– Januz (John) Badera (brother of Ballaban)

– Jakup (Jacob) Arnaut (the Albanian, from Turkish), the son of Theodor Muzaka;

– Leka Dukagjini – Price of Dukagjini province in northern Albania;

– Hamza Kastrioti (his original name Branilo, sounds Serbian) – nephew of Scanderbeg

• 36-39 grand Vezirs (Prime Ministers) of Ottoman Empire were Albanians, some of them with more than one term, the most known of which were the Köprülü Dynasty from Roshnik of Berat (Albania)

• The late Ottoman Empire had many prominent personalities Albanians.



• Hasan Tahsini (1811-1881), astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher. The first rector of Istanbul University.

• Professor Tahir Efendi (1826-1888), the father of Mehmet Akif, born and lived in Kosovo until the age of 29. Regarded as one of the greatest intellectuals of Ottoman Empire along with Hasan Tahsini. His personality is overshadowed by his highly sophisticated and multidimensional son, Mehmet Akif.


• Sami Frashëri (1850-1904), one of main contributors of Turkish alphabet, wrote the Ottoman Empire Encyclopedia, known for his work “Albania what it was, what it is, and what will become”?

• Ali Sami Yen – Frashëri (1886-1951),founder of Galatasaray, which you know as a famous football club, but in fact it is a very large sport complex ((football, basketball, volleyball, athletics, judo, water polo, rowing, sailing, equestrian, briged, chess).


• Mehmed Esat Pasha (1862-1952), general, defender of Ioannina. According to the notes of Otto Liman von Sanders, it was him who organized the stiffest resistance in Gallipoli against the Allies, not Mustafa Kemal. He was about to turn Ioannina into a grave for the Greeks had a Greek agent Ismail Qemali(considered the “Father of Albanians”) not handed over the city to the Greeks.

• Kâzım Fikri Özalp (1880 – 1968) born in Veles of today Macedonia (then Köprülü in Vilayet of Kosovo), politician, military officer, and one of the key leading figures in the Turkish War of Independence, participant in several war fronts:

– Fist Minister of Defense of Turkey, 1921-1925

– Assembly Speaker of Turkey, 1924-1935

– Minister of Defense of Turkey, 1935-1939

• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 1881-1938, of Albanian father and Turkish mother. One Hebrew source (Encyclopedia Judaica) states that he was Doenmeh, a Jewish tribe converted to Islam (Crypto Jew). He was promoted commander of the Fifth Army in Gallipoli by a German Jewish general Otto Liman von Sanders, but was Mustafa Kemal a Jew?

What do Jewish scholars find about the origin of Mustafa Kemal?

• Gershom Shcolem (2007: 732): The claims that he (Mustafa Kemal) was of Jewish origin are eagerly embraced only by his opponents (namely radical Islamists and pan Islamists)

• Isaac Frederick Marcosson (1969: 144): of Albanian father and Turkish mother.

• Numerous non-Jewish scholars find the same origin – Albanian father and Turkish mother: Richmond (1995: 212), Mango (2002: 27), Jackh (2007: 31).

• During the Turkish War of Independence, Russia was the main ally with arms. Russia recommended that Turkey should adopt communism as a political system for a stronger alliance against the West. Russia’s foreign minister of the time was Maxim Litvinov (Jew).

• Turkey had a one party system but non-communist. It was closer than ever to adopt the model of “Judeo-Bolshevik Communism” as it had Russia as an ally.

• Mustafa Kemal after rejecting that “communism is not something that fits Turkey” (although he led a monist non-communist party), eventually allowed the cells of communist party to be found.

• However, after indipepdence, over 100 Turkish communist activists were executed at his bequest. Since then, the issue of “Judeo-Bolshevik Communism” in Turkey was sealed once and forever. This shows what kind of a “Jew” Ataturk was, and how he worked for “them”!

In no crooner of the earth Albanians had not been and are not elite like in Turkey (6)

• Mehmet Akif Ersoy (1873-1936), National Poet, writer, academician, Member of Parliament,

and author of Turkey’s National Anthem “The March of Independence” (written in 1921, 41 verses)

• Before he wrote the anthem for Turkey, he wrote several “anthems” for Albanians, the most well-known of which is “My name is Albanian” (written in 1913 in Cairo and much larger, 100 verses, than that of Turkey), but Albanians chose to steal from Romanians;

• Condemned the wars between nations in Ottoman Empire, that would result in:

- Serb genocide of Albanians

- Greek genocide of Moslem Chams (Albanians in Greece)

- Turkish genocide of Armenians

- The war between Young Turk and Albanians

• Accused the government of Young Turks and Albanian leaders for the loss of Albanian territories in the Balkans;

Mehmet Akif Ersoy• Condemned the population exchange (forced exodus) between Turkey and Greece;

• Condemned Pogroms in Russia/Soviet Union and the death of millions of Ukrainians;

• Supported Turkish War of Independence by mobilizing people for war in the mosques during the Friday Moslem prayers;

• “Safahat” (Papers) is his masterpiece

• Assessment of his work (and his ideology) by two different groups of scholars:

1) He was a pious man and Painislamist

2) He wanted Islam to evolve and be interpreted “by the minds of the century”

• According to himself, his work (read it), his life experience, and his everything: - Middle Eastern people and Moslems are lazy and illiterate, who 100 years ago were further 300 years

behind in development of Western Europe;

- Though he studied and learned French, he writes with an admiration for Germans against the French, and recommends that the Turks should learn lessons from Germany

- Burned the translation of the Koran he was making and fled to Egypt in 1925 and did not return until 1936, shortly before death. Egypt of the time was ruled by Albanians. Burning the Koran and fleeing forever to his national rulers of Egypt, is contrary to Islam and Panislamism.

- In his very large poem “The Cleric on Power/Throne” (1190 verses) ridicules human beliefs and expectations in religious dogma of Islam.

- Opposed by force the idea of Ziya Gokalp for “Turanization” (Turkification) of different people in the Ottoman Empire, to the extent that in a meeting with senior leaders of Young Turks, nearly punched the face of Talat Pasha, and left by slamming their door./

• The Turkish Government of the time (in late 1936) showed a high disrespect towards his death. His funeral was organized and paid by the students.

• General Kenan Evren (1917-), from Preshevo (modern southern Serbia), the 7th

President of the Republic of Turkey (1980-1989). Known as the pioneer of military coup of Turkish Army in the Government of Turkey.

• NATO General İlker Başbuğ (1943-) of parents from Preshevo, 26th Chief of the General Staff of Turkey. Sentenced to life imprisonment in 2013 on charges of forming a terrorist organization to overthrow the Turkish Government, but released after a statement by Recep TayyipErdogan (who is sympathetic to Albanians) who made it clear that [Albanian!] generals will no longer rule the Government at Western orders.


• Melih Gökçek (1948-), former MP (1991-94), and current mayor of Ankara (capital city of Turkey)since 1994, winning five consecutive terms (1994, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2014 -). Visits his uncles in Prizren (Kosovo).

• Recep Altepe (1959 –) current mayor of Bursa Metropolitan Municipality.

• Ahmet Priştina (1952–2004) , former mayor of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality for two consecutive terms (1999, 2004), the son of an Albanian Bey from Prishtina. He was to win “infinite” terms as a mayor had he not died from heart attack in 2004.


Ebru Şallı (1977 - ), of parents from Gjakova (Kosovo), television

personality, model, businesswoman, author, actress,

and former beauty pageant titleholder, crowned the Queen of Turkey 1995. Expressed her desire

to live the last years and die in Gjakova.


Hakan Şükür

(1971 - ), of Prishtinaorigin, striker of

Galatasaray, known as the “King of Goals” and the

“Bull of the Bosporus”. Holds the World Record for fastest start up

goal in World Championship

Kenan İmirzalıoğlu (1974 - ), actor, known as Mehmet Kosovali in the series 2005-2007 (due

to his origin))

The origin of Albanians from Illyrians

Illyrian viper (Vipera Illyrica), the most venomous snake in Europe, lives in rocky habitats of the Balkans. Albanian name: Gjarpri i gurit (Stone’s snake), Hundraku (Nose-horner). The zigzag color shape is used by Albanians to rile the baby in cradle with a textile strip to the present day, which Albanians call it Lulak (derived from Lulija, or her male equivalent).

ILLYRIOS (from Ancient Greek) = a kind of snake, this one in picture below, which, according to the legend of Polidoris, riled a baby in the cradle, who took the name of thatsnake.

2. Archaeological discoveries prove a different Albanian identity

What these pictures from Sultan Ahmed or the Blue Mosque in Istanbul have to do with the origin of Albanians or their identity? Pay attention to the symbols.

Engravings and symbols in a marble stone, circa 2 500 BC

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1) Mortise of extended order;2) Mortise of first order; 3) Level/caper; 4) Flower of Life with petals; 5) Unknown (possibly a hole for

link up through tenon with mortise of first order;

6) “The Eye of Masonry/Illuminati” inside hexagon of Illyricum Sacrum(Star of “David”);

7) Illyricum Sacrum; 8) Tree (Fruit) of Life; 9) Flower of Life (Luljeta) with

five petals.

Source: Mulaj, Isa (2014), “Why Archeological Tourism Does Not Work?: Evidence From Two Discoveries in Kosovo", in Kozak, Metin and Kozak, Nazmi eds., 3rd Interdisciplinary Tourism Research Conference, 03 - 07 June 2014, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 207-213.

©Isa Mulaj, 2013

Flower of Life as you might have not known – Lulija

The sacred geometry symbol known in world terminology as the Flower of Life, is called by Albanians as Lulija or Lulia(pronounced as Looliya – from “Lulja” – Flower)

Lulija is a personal given name for women, less common than Luljeta, but the most widespread name as a cult of beauty and love among Albanians. The songs about Lulija have monopoly in Albanian popular music.

Lulija and Luljeta are two separate symbols (artifacts from Bronze Age)

©Isa Mulaj, 2014

Luljeta (Loolyeta, literally the Flower of Life) is the five-petal flower, five-pointed star whose origin is from the earth, not from the sky

3.1. The cause and the factor of Albanian existence is the Ottoman Empire

• Albanians were joint conquerors and rulers of the Balkans in the Ottoman Empire

• Embracing of Islam saved Albanians from assimilation. Bosnia and Croatia were lost to Habsburgs in the 18th century, and today speak Serbo-Croatian. From cultural point of view, Bosnians and Croats have nothing in common with Illyrians.

• Albanians expanded their territories on four sides:

– They took Kosovo, Macedonia, and Southern Serbia from the Serbs;

– They took Northern and Northeastern Greece from the Greeks;

– They took Western Albania and Southeastern Montenegro from Venice;

– The territories taken (or retaken by the help of Ottoman Turks) were colonized by Albanians, especially Kosovo, Western Macedonia, and

Southern Serbia.

• Ottoman Empire was Albanians’ the only Golden Age.

• The greatest personalities of Albanians are from Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey.

4. The status of Mehmet Akif in Turkey and among Albanians

1. Mehmet Akif, not Mustafa Kemal is Ataturku

- Mustafa Kemal was formed by others as a personality; Mehmet Akif formed himself

- The role of Mustafa Kemal is exaggerated. In Gallipoli Campaign, the greatest catastrophe of WWI (because: German weapons + Albanian/Jewish leadership + Albanian fighters) Mehmed Esat Pasha was the key; in Turkish War of Independence Kazim Ozalp; in the Battle of Meggido (1918) Mustafa Kemal with Liman von Sanders led the annihilation of the Ottoman army to the British (cause of defeat: Albanian + Jewish leadership, but Turkish + Arab fighters).

2. Mehmet Akif, not Ismail Qemali is an Albanian patriot

Ismail Qemali considered himself a Young Turk patriot at the time when Mehmet Akif was writing “My name is Albanian.” Ismail Qemali did not know Albanian, and one of his two wives was a Gypsy (the other was Greek).

3. Mehmet Akifi, not Naim Frashëri is the National Poet of Albanians

The poems and works by Mehmet Akif are a live history, present, and the future. Those by Naim Frashëri are about woods, trees, hills, flowers…..

5. Conclusions• Albanians (majority of them) did not assimilate into Slavs and Greeks due to

joint rule with the Ottomans.

• Albanians of Shushitsa are newcomers from Northern Albania after Austrian-Turkish war (the Long War).

• Albanians have the right to Ottoman heritage to the extent the Turks have, if not more.

• Only one family from Kosovo (Mulaj), has provided for the Ottoman and Turkey’s era: one Professor (Tahir Efendi), one National Poet (Mehmet Akif), one “King’s Fighter” (Selim of Halit), and one navy officer (Nazif)

• Current Albanian identity (as they present themselves and the world knows them) is a product of Serb, Romanian, Aromanian, and Gipsy cultural heritage.

• The true symbols of Albanians are: Illyricum Sacrum, Lulia, Luljeta, Lulak, and Illyrian viper (Nose-horned viper), and not the red Byzantine flag with a Serb symbol (double headed eagle “Kosovo” – blackbird), Romanian anthem, and Serb tragic figures.

• Albanians who were capable of establishing and ruling large states in Asia and Africa but never their own people in the Balkans, will become strong only if they fire endless myths and distortions in their textbooks and false identity in which they rely on.

Thank you for your attention!

Questions, comments, supplements, are not only welcomed, but I consider them indispensable!

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