Emin Duraku

{{short description|Albanian partisan}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Emin Duraku | image=Emin Duraku 1973 Yugoslavia stamp.jpg | caption = Duraku on a 1973 Yugoslavian stamp | birth_date = 1 January 1918 | birth_place = Gjakova, Kosovo | death_date = {{death date and age|1942|12|23|1918|01|01|df=y}} | death_place = Lipljan, Kosovo | awards = 17px Hero of the People }} '''Emin Duraku''' (1918 – 23 December 1942) was an Albanian Yugoslav partisan active during World War II in Yugoslavia as an organizer of the liberation struggle in Kosovo. He was posthumously proclaimed a national hero of Albania and Yugoslavia.

==Biography== Duraku was born in Gjakova in 1918.<ref name="Elsie2004"/> He was an early Albanian member of the Yugoslav communist movement. He returned to his home region in 1939 and was part of the bureau of the party's regional committee. Duraku was killed by fascist forces in Lipljan and became a martyr to the communist cause. Following his death, an Albanian partisan unit, formed in January 1943, was named after him.<ref name="Elsie2004">{{cite book|author=Robert Elsie|title=Historical Dictionary of Kosova|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fnbw1wsacSAC|year=2004|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-5309-6}}</ref> An elementary school in Tirana and one in Shtime also named after him.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Duraku, Emin}} Category:Politicians from Gjakova Category:League of Communists of Kosovo politicians Category:Yugoslav Partisans members Category:1918 births Category:1942 deaths Category:Kosovo Albanians Category:Yugoslav Albanians Category:Heroes of Albania Category:Yugoslav military personnel killed in World War II Category:Recipients of the Order of the People's Hero