Quote"His hoped-for Muslim state in Tirana, Albania's capital, will be a Vatican-style sovereign enclave controlling territory about the size of five New York City blocks..."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/world/europe/albania-tirana-muslim-state-bektashi.html
The Albanian PM has announced plans to create a new microstate for the Sufi mystic order of the Bektashis. This could be an interesting question for Talossan foreign policy re: recognition?
Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on September 21, 2024, 04:52:37 PMQuote"His hoped-for Muslim state in Tirana, Albania's capital, will be a Vatican-style sovereign enclave controlling territory about the size of five New York City blocks..."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/world/europe/albania-tirana-muslim-state-bektashi.html
The Albanian PM has announced plans to create a new microstate for the Sufi mystic order of the Bektashis. This could be an interesting question for Talossan foreign policy re: recognition?
Interesting. Although the real equivalent would not be the Vatican City State but the Knights of Malta (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta).
The Bektashi order, like the Naqshbandi order in Türkiye and Iraq, have a colorful history which involves acting at times like a secret society rather than a spiritual order.
(https://preview.redd.it/yi7s1lhr0to31.jpg?auto=webp&s=093d57ca6f33334d757b347c56308819c0131ff2)
Oh wow, so their headquarters are actually in the Detroit? Now, that would be an interesting place for a microstate.