{{short description|Albanian politician and jurist (1895-1991)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Hasan Dosti | party = Balli Kombëtar | children = Victor Dosti | profession = Lawyer, politician | alma_mater = University of Paris | order = Minister of Justice | term_start = December 12, 1941 | term_end = January 19, 1943<ref name="Neuwirth2008">{{cite book|last=Neuwirth|first=Hubert|title=Widerstand und Kollaboration in Albanien 1939–1944|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qa97yONE4IwC&pg=PA259|access-date=12 February 2012|year=2008|publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag|isbn=978-3-447-05783-7|page=259}}</ref> | birth_date = 1895 | birth_place = Kardhiq, Ottoman Empire<br />{{small|(now Kardhiq, Albania)}} | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1991|01|29|1895|01|01}} | death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | signature = Hasan Dosti (nënshkrim).svg }}
'''Hasan Dosti''' (1895{{spaced ndash}}January 29, 1991) was an Albanian jurist and politician. He was the leader of the Balli Kombëtar after the war and was considered by the communists to be one of Albania's greatest enemies.<ref>{{cite book|title=Albania: from anarchy to a Balkan identity|year=1997|publisher=Hurst|author= Miranda Vickers, James Pettifer|url= https://archive.org/details/albaniafromanarc00vick|url-access=registration|quote=... whose father Hasan Dosti had been the leader of the BK after the war and was considered by the communists to be one of Albania's greatest enemies.|access-date=31 March 2012}}</ref>
==Biography==
===Early life=== Hasan Dosti was born in Albania (then part of the Ottoman Empire) in the village of Kardhiq near Gjirokastra,<ref name="Robert Elsie" /> to Elmaz Aga of the Dosti branch of Muslim Albanian Tosk household Dosti-Hajdaragaj.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Rozi Dosti|title=Hasan Dosti akuzoi agjentin Kim Filbi per vdekjen e njerëzve të tij në Shqipëri|interviewer=Fatos Veliu|date=30 January 2013|publisher=Gazeta Shqiptare|issue=5894|pages=20–21|url=http://www.voal-online.ch/index.php?mod=article&cat=INTERVISTËPRESS&article=30271}}</ref><ref name="EVlora">{{Cite book|title=Lebenserinnerungen|trans-title=Kujtime 1885-1925|last=Vlora|first=Eqrem bej|author-link=Eqrem bej Vlora|publisher=IDK|year=2003|isbn=99927-780-6-7|location=Tiranë|pages=583|translator=Afrim Koçi}}</ref> Back then the village was part of the Ottoman Empire and belonged to the Vilayet of Janina with majority Albanian population. He attended the schools in Filippiada and the Philosophy Zosimaia School in Ioannina.<ref name="Robert Elsie">{{cite book|title=Historical dictionary of Albania|author=Robert Elsie|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=haFlGXIg8uoC&q=hassan+dosti&pg=PA116|publisher=I.B.Tauris|date=2010|page=116|access-date=31 March 2012|isbn=9780810873803}}</ref> His family moved to Vlora after World War I, where Dosti met Avni Rustemi. Dosti then moved to Paris to complete his tertiary education at the faculty of law of the University of Paris.<ref name="Robert Elsie"/> After graduating, he returned to Albania to work as a lawyer.<ref name="Robert Elsie"/> In the 1920s he served a member of court of cassation of Albania under Thoma Orollogaj, who was the minister of justice at the time.
===Opposition to monarchy=== An opponent of Ahmet Zogu, he was imprisoned several times. From 1932 to 1935 he was sentenced to prison because of his participation in the ''Movement of Vlorë'', an anti-monarchist organization founded by Dosti himself and Skënder Muço among others. In the late 1930s he organized an assassination plot against leading Italian and Albanian fascists.<ref name="Aldrich2002">{{cite book|last=Aldrich|first=Richard James|title=The hidden hand: Britain, America, and Cold War secret intelligence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y-IPAQAAMAAJ|access-date=12 February 2012|year=2002|publisher=Overlook Press|isbn=978-1-58567-274-5|page=162}}</ref>
===Balli Kombëtar=== In 1941 he initially became Minister of Justice in Mustafa Merlika-Kruja's cabinet under Italian occupation;<ref name="Fischer1999" /> however, in 1943 Dosti defected and joined the Balli Kombëtar.<ref name="Fischer1999">{{cite book|last=Fischer|first=Bernd Jürgen|title=Albania at war, 1939–1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P-MiG9ngCp8C&pg=PA116|access-date=12 February 2012|year=1999|publisher=Hurst|isbn=978-1-85065-531-2|page=116}}</ref>
===Death=== Hasan Dosti died at the age of 96. He had eight children, Luan, of Los Angeles, an aerospace engineer; and seven others who remained in Albania, including Shano Sokoli, Viktor Dosti, Tomorr Dosti, Ernest Dosti and Veronika Dine who spent their lives under Albania's Stalinist regime in labor camps and prisons.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/31/obituaries/hasan-dosti-96-dies-ex-official-in-albania.html New York Times: Hasan Dosti, 96, Dies; Ex-Official in Albania]</ref>
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