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Fort Dodge Messenger
April 15, 2018
Dawn Larson, an economic development specialist for the city's Engineering, Business Affairs and Community Growth Department, said the dinner and its special menu will provide ”a way for citizens to experience Kosovo.” The meal will be prepared by Iowa Central Community College culinary artsÃâà...
Prishtina Insight
April 11, 2018
James Ker-Lindsay, professor at St. Mary's University and visiting fellow at the European Institute for the London School of Economics, said that there is a compelling debate as to whether recognition really matters anymore for Kosovo. A fixation on state recognition is understandable, of course. But KosovoÃâà...
Axios
April 11, 2018
Students of Mehmet Akif College protest the Turkish arrest of their teachers in Pristina, Kosovo, on March 29, 2018. ... David L. Phillips is director of the Program on Peace-building and Rights at Columbia University and a former senior adviser to both the UN Secretariat and the U.S. Department of State.
Balkan Insight
April 5, 2018
Kosovo police on March 29 arrested five employees of Turkish colleges in Kosovo and a Turkish doctor. They were all allegedly linked to Fethullah Gulen, the Turkish preacher who has lived in voluntary exile in the US since 1999, who Turkey calls the head of a terrorist organisation and blames for theÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 4, 2018
Students of Mehmet Akif College in Kosovo protest the arrest and deportation of their teachers. ... Kosovo's parliament on April 4 voted to establish a panel to investigate how and why six Turkish citizens who are opponents of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan were arrested and deported to Turkey.
Balkan Insight
April 4, 2018
The exiled cleric spoke out after Kosovo police on March 19 arrested five employees of Turkish colleges in Kosovo and a Turkish doctor, all allegedly linked to Gulen, who Turkey calls a terrorist. They were deported soon after. Turkey later said its secret service had conducted the operation in cooperationÃâà...
EUobserver
April 4, 2018
We thought it interesting and enriching to see Kosovo's future accession to the EU from two different points of view: Pristina and Brussels, where in one ... minister for EU Integration, and the view from Brussels by Antonia Battaglia, researcher at the Centre for Political Theory of ULB University in Brussels.
EURACTIV
April 3, 2018
Ahmeti lectured on public policy at the American University in Kosovo and also worked for the World Bank for a number of years. “Today, the Western Balkans countries show clear elements of state capture.” With this sentence from its new enlargement strategy adopted on 6 February 6, the EuropeanÃâà...
Prishtina Insight
April 3, 2018
I've heard something along these lines at least a handful of times over the past year: “In Kosovo, it's easier to live illegally than it is to register.” ... I registered for an employment-based permit (other options include family reunification, secondary and higher education, scientific research, and humanitarianÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 1, 2018
Students of Mehmet Akif College demonstrate against the arrest of their teachers in Pristina on March 29. ... Turkey's president has slammed Kosovo's prime minister for being critical of the arrest and deportation of six Turkish citizens with ties to schools linked to the Fethullah Gulen movement that AnkaraÃâà...
BBC News
March 30, 2018
Mr Haradinaj sacked Kosovo Interior Minister Flamur Sefaj and intelligence agency chief Driton Gashi. In a tweet, he said he had not been informed about the Kosovo Intelligence Agency operation. Five of the suspects are teachers at schools run by the Mehmet Akif College, a Kosovo-based institutionÃâà...
The Fort Hood Sentinel
March 21, 2018
Jarrod Miller, when the two of them attended the veterinary school at Auburn University. Married four-and-a-half years with three years in the Army, this was their first deployment. Olivia said instead of her husband heading home to Texas for mid-tour leave, she traveled to meet him in Europe. The pair met inÃâà...
Balkan Insight
March 19, 2018
Kosovo teachers who helped keep Albanian-language schools open during the 1990s are striking to get the government to recognise their contributions. ... Bardh Bardhi, head of the University and Science Syndicate, which is part of the Union of Education, Culture and Science of Kosovo, told BIRN that theÃâà...
Prishtina Insight
December 31, 1999
A former student of Mehmet Akif College explains why about a hundred of students are protesting the deportation of their teachers from Kosovo. ... The Kosovo Police, together with the Kosovo Intelligence Agency, AKI, and the Turkish Intelligence Agency, MIT, deported five Mehmet Akif College directorsÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
December 31, 1999
Kosovo authorities have indicted 11 people from President Hashim Thaci's ruling Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) for allegedly handing out state jobs to ... offering party supporters jobs at state-financed agencies, among them the rail network, courts and universities, water, energy, and health companies.
Prishtina Insight
December 31, 1999
Moreover, the Kosovo government appointed board members of the public enterprise without external vetting. Disregarding a memorandum of understanding with the British embassy, which foresees the inclusion of independent British vetters in the recruitment process of public appointments, the KosovoÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
The brief detention on Monday of Marko Djuric, director of the Serbian government's Kosovo office, marked the first such incident in Kosovo since the .... "There appears to be a good deal of theatrics involved," Florian Bieber, professor of Southeast European Studies at Austria's University of Graz, told AlÃâà...
Prishtina Insight
December 31, 1999
Of the six members of the Kosovo Telecom board appointed on Thursday, four have friendly relations or past political ties with governing parties. The Kosovo Telecom had no board since 2016, when the last board's mandate expired. The members chosen by the current cabinet are: Besa Shatri, SkenderÃâà...
Prishtina Insight
December 31, 1999
According to Turkish state news agency Anadolu, the Gulistan Educational Institutions, which operate four Mehmet Akif elementary and high schools in Kosovo, are part of what they call the “Gulenist terrorist organization, FETO,” led by Turkish imam Fethullah Gulen, currently living in exile in the US.
