During his visit to Tirana on January 17 this year, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked Prime Minister Edi Rama to take concrete steps to fight the Gulenists as a "precondition" for friendship and partnership between the two countries. According to him, the Turkish people are "deeply hurt" by the fact that in Albania the Hizmet Movement of the cleric, Fethullah Gülen, finds scope.
But the head of the Albanian government since then has not taken any action on Erdogan's request, and it even seems that the Hizmet Movement of the cleric, Fethullah Gülen, has spread his roots even more in Albania.
Recently, the biography of the Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen was translated into Albanian, by Jon Pahl, professor of Christian history in Pennsylvania, and at the same time Pastor. It was promoted today in the premises of a hotel in the capital where the American author Pahl was also present, who spoke about Gülen's principles on the way he explains and lives Islam.
This latest act and the massive spread of Gulenism in Albania do not seem to please the Turkish president at all. Recep Tayyip Erdogan and cleric Fethullah Gulen were once allies with each other and today are sworn enemies. One of the strongest accusations that Erdogan makes against Gülen is that of the coup on July 15, 2016, for which the Turkish president accuses the Hizmet Movement as its creator.
After a very close friendship with each other, diplomatic sources suggest that Rama and Erdogan have cut off communication with each other and the reason is the non-fulfillment of the condition that the Turkish president set for the Prime Minister of Albania during his visit on January 17 this year. in Tirana.