The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA), the country’s leading development helps body also It works to preserve the Ottoman heritage in countries Where the empire once upon a time left Its unique fingerprints of Civilization. From magnificent mosques to clock towers, bridges and schools, more It was 80 buildings restored in Balkans countries By TIKA so far.
The agency builds or rather strengthens bridges between Turkey and the Balkans countrieswhose history It has been intricately linked to the country and has always been in Call with this is former heart of Ottoman Empire.
The empire that dominated most of its parts of Balkans directly or by proxy for about 550 years, left behind antiquities of its civilization, in every field of politics And the economy of culture and religion. Construction of mosques, religious schools, clock towers, baths and Turkish bridges in Ottoman era stands test of time in Most places in Balkans. Along with The regionTikka up out The structures of the Ottoman heritage in Asia and Africa.
agency that runs 11 coordination offices in Balkans, mostly concentrated on Mosques damaged or left dilapidated in The past. Repair completed and renovation of 40 mosques in Balkans.
in Albania, for For example, TIKA restored Adham Bey Mosque in The capital, Tirana, between 2018 and 2021 of eight great Dating mosques back for the ottomans times in tirana mosque, built in eighteen centuryI was built by Mulla Bey and son Haxhi Ethem Bey, an Ottoman Albanian official of who – which century. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan inaugurated the mosque in January after it was restored. Last yearTica also Complete the restoration of Bachelor Mosque in The city of Berat is a UNESCO cultural heritage site dating back to the nineteenth century. tika also restored Seven other mosques in Country.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, TIKA completed the reconstruction work In the Al-Fardija Mosque, which was damaged during the Bosnian War between 1992 and 1995, in 2016. In 2015, restoration of Oldest mosque of Sarajevo, Kareva Mosque, Cannes also Tika completed. The mosque is first Mosque built in The city After the conquest by the Ottomans in Fifteenth century. also in country, tika took on Recovery of six other mosques. In Montenegro, she led the restoration of seventeenth-century The Ottoman Mosque is now located in village. The agency reconstructed the severely damaged mosque, its headquarters on authentic plans and reopened it in 2015. Three more mosques were restored by agency in Country. In Kosovo, it was Tika behind Recovery work of Sinan Pasha Mosque, from the Ottoman era place of Worship in Prizren and mosque built by Mehmed II the Conqueror in fifteenth century, plus four other mosques in Country.
