Abstract:
On January 1, 1918, a group of Albanian personalities in Istanbul decided to establish
a society named “Helping Society of Albanian colony in Turkey”. The main purpose
of establishing this society was to strengthen the close ties between Albanians. All
Albanians of Turkey, wherever they were, had to coordinate all their efforts for their
moral, human, commercial and health needs. To achieve this goal they should care
to provide their compatriots every patriotic service in different ways. Were assigned
the duties and obligations of each member, age over 21 years of membership and
also the right quotation. Beside it they tried to open schools in Albanian trying to
educate the sons of Albanian emigrants living there.
