Prelec: Kurti reminds me of Tudjman, conducting “soft ethnic cleansing”

Balkan expert from the International Crisis Group, Marko Prelec, said that Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti reminds him of the late Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, stating that Kurti’s actions amount to “soft ethnic cleansing.”

Commenting on the eviction of Serbs from an apartment building in Leshak, Prelec criticized Kurti’s policies, drawing parallels with those of the late Croatian leader.

“This won’t win me friends in either Croatia or Kosovo, but Albin Kurti really reminds me of the late Croatian President Tudjman — also a leftist nationalist. This quasi-legal violence represents a kind of ‘soft’ ethnic cleansing, whose goal is not to eliminate the minority, but to marginalize it,” Prelec wrote on the social media platform X.

His post came in response to a tweet by Brauwin Jones, stating that the Government of Kosovo evicted people from apartments it had declared illegal, claiming that the tenants were refugees.

“The Kosovo government is now evicting people from their homes, claiming the apartments are illegal. The people living there are refugees,” she wrote.