# Hasan Dosti

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{{short description|Albanian politician and jurist (1895-1991)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name        = Hasan Dosti
| party       = [Balli Kombëtar](/source/Balli_Komb%C3%ABtar)
| children    = [Victor Dosti](/source/Victor_Dosti)
| profession  = [Lawyer](/source/Lawyer), [politician](/source/politician)
| alma_mater  = [University of Paris](/source/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](/source/Kardhiq), [Ottoman Empire](/source/Ottoman_Empire)<br />{{small|(now [Kardhiq](/source/Kardhiq), [Albania](/source/Albania))}}
| death_date  = {{death date and age|df=yes|1991|01|29|1895|01|01}}
| death_place = [Los Angeles](/source/Los_Angeles), [California](/source/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](/source/Balli_Komb%C3%ABtar) after the war and was considered by the [communists](/source/Albanian_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](/source/Albania) (then part of the Ottoman Empire) in the village of [Kardhiq](/source/Kardhiq) near [Gjirokastra](/source/Gjirokastra),<ref name="Robert Elsie" /> to Elmaz [Aga](/source/Agha_(title)) of the Dosti branch of Muslim Albanian [Tosk](/source/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](/source/Ottoman_Empire) and belonged to the [Vilayet of Janina](/source/Vilayet_of_Janina) with majority Albanian population. He attended the schools in [Filippiada](/source/Filippiada) and the Philosophy [Zosimaia School](/source/Zosimaia_School) in [Ioannina](/source/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](/source/Vlora) after [World War I](/source/World_War_I), where Dosti met [Avni Rustemi](/source/Avni_Rustemi). Dosti then moved to [Paris](/source/Paris) to complete his tertiary education at the faculty of law of the [University of Paris](/source/University_of_Paris).<ref name="Robert Elsie"/> After graduating, he returned to [Albania](/source/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](/source/Thoma_Orollogaj), who was the minister of justice at the time.

===Opposition to monarchy===
An opponent of [Ahmet Zogu](/source/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](/source/Sk%C3%ABnder_Mu%C3%A7o) 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](/source/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](/source/Los_Angeles), an aerospace engineer; and seven others who remained in Albania, including Shano Sokoli, [Viktor Dosti](/source/Victor_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>

== Sources ==
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Category:People from Gjirokastër
Category:Politicians from Gjirokastër
Category:People from Janina vilayet
Category:20th-century Albanian judges
Category:Balli Kombëtar
Category:University of Paris alumni
Category:Albanian anti-communists
Category:Zosimaia School alumni
Category:20th-century Albanian politicians
Category:Justice ministers of Albania
Category:Albanian collaborators with Nazi Germany
Category:Albanian expatriates in the United States
Category:Albanian people of World War II
Category:Albanian expatriates in France
Category:Albanian exiles

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