Jashar Sadik Erebara (1873-1953) was a figure involved in the

Albanian National Awakening The Albanian National Awakening ( sq, Rilindja or ), commonly known as the Albanian Renaissance or Albanian Revival, is a period throughout the 19th and 20th century of a cultural, political and social movement in the Albanian history where th ...

. During June 1900 an Albanian newspaper was published in Ottoman Turkish and Romanian at

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with no connections to any Albanian societies. At the time Erebara and

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, both students from

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were its editors and the paper advocated for an independent Albania ruled by a foreign prince and protected by the Great Powers. The newspaper later ceased publication due to a lack of money and complaints from the Ottoman embassy in Romania. In Paris, Erebara participated in the Congress of Ottoman Opposition (1902) organised by Prince Sabahaddin calling for reforms, minority rights, revolution and European intervention in the empire. Erebara and Hima, another delegate of the 1902 Congress both published a Turkish-Albanian journal for Shpresa, an Albanian nationalist society. The activities of Erebara had caused annoyance to Ottoman authorities as he had advocated in Serbia for Albanian nationalism and Young Turk (CUP) ideas. By 1904 a secret agreement between the Ottoman ambassador and private secretary of the Serbian king was reached that called for the expulsion of Erebara by Serbia and pardon of three arrested Montenegrins in the Ottoman empire.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Erebara, Jashar Activists of the Albanian National Awakening People from Debar 1873 births 1953 deaths Albanian orientalists Albanian Sufis People from Scutari vilayet People from Manastir vilayet Journalists from the Ottoman Empire Albanians from the Ottoman Empire