Kastriot Berissa (born Tahir Veliu; born 19 February 1984) and formerly as Kastriot Berishaj, is an Albanian politician, author and political analyst. He is leader of the nationalist

Movement for United Albania The Movement for United Albania ( sq, Lëvizja për Shqipëri të Bashkuar) is an irredentist and nationalist political movement A political movement is a collective attempt by a group of people to change government policy or social values. Po ...

and the author of the book "Platforma për Shqipëri të Bashkuar" (The Platform for United Albania).

Political life

On 16 July 2016, Berissa was elected as the president of the

, following its founding convention held in Pristina. Because of his activities in all of Albanian territories. On 7 August 2016, he has been declared as

persona non grata In diplomacy, a ' (Latin: "person not welcome", plural: ') is a status applied by a host country to foreign diplomats to remove their protection of diplomatic immunity from arrest and other types of prosecution. Diplomacy Under Article 9 of the ...

in Serbia. Likewise, on 13 August 2016. He has been banned from entering Greece. Veliu was arrested by the Greek authorities and subsequently deported to the border crossing of Kakavija, as he is considered a threat to Greece, because of his extremist political views on uniting the Albanian and foreign territories into a single Greater Albanian state. On 6 June 2017, he was arrested by the

Albanian Police The Albanian State Police ( sq, Policia e Shtetit) is the national police and law enforcement agency which operates throughout the Republic of Albania. The collapse of the Communist system and the establishment of political pluralism post-1991 ...

at the Albania-Kosovo border and is currently facing charges of burning foreign flags, igniting national hatred, distribution of unconstitutional printed material, and creation of unconstitutional parties & associations. On 11 July 2017, the court of Tirana, deemed Veliu's Movement for United Albania to be legal according to the constitution of the Republic of Albania, which recognizes the right to national unification as a legitimate and constitutional right. Tahir Veliu considered his full birth name to be an unwanted "imposition" of Turkish culture on Albanians from the Ottoman era and in April 2018, he announced that his name and surname was changed to Kastriot Berishaj. In 2018, he after changing the full name had an assassination attempt, but escaped and moved to Canada and changed his surname from Berishaj to Berissa.

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