Kararname (League of Prizren)

Kararname
Group photo of some of the delegates
Kararname of Prizren Committee for National Defence
Enacted by	Prizren Committee for National Defence
Date enacted	June 18, 1878
Related legislation
Ottoman Empire
Summary
announcement that the people from the "northern Albania, Epirus and Bosnia" are willing to defend the "territorial integrity" of the Ottoman Empire "by all possible means" from the troops of the Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro

The Kararname ("Decree") of Prizren Committee for National Defence is the name of the decree (the Book of Decisions) signed by 47 Muslim deputies from the districts of Prizren, Yakova (present-day Gjakova), Ipek (present-day Peć), Gucia, Yeni Pazar (present-day Novi Pazar), Sjenica, Pljevlja, Mitrovica, Vučitrn, Pristina, Gnjilane, Skopje, Kalkandelen (present-day Tetovo), Kičevo, Gostivar, and Lower Dibra (present-day Peshkopi) and Upper Dibra (present-day Debar) on June 18, 1878. The original text, written on Ottoman Turkish, is missing. Around 300 Muslims participated on the assembly, including delegates from Bosnia and mutasarrif (sanjakbey) of the Sanjak of Prizren as representative of the Ottoman authorities.

Kararname is a word from Turkish language, and means decree or the government approved decision of the president. Origins of the word are Farsi; karar (gharār; قرار in Farsi) meaning stability, and Name (Nāmeh; نامه in Farsi) meaning letter.

The Prizren Committee for National Defence delegates assembled in Prizren on June 10, 1878, and submitted an eighteen-page memorandum to Benjamin Disraeli the British representative at the Congress of Berlin, on June 13, 1878.