1 Prof. Dr. Ali Pajaziti 1 TURK AND TURKEY PERCEPTION AT ALBANIANS IN THE BEGINNING OF 21 st CENTURY 2 , 1. Abstract Albanians as one of the cultural, ethnic, political and economic factor of Balkan Peninsula were part of Ottoman Empire and Pax Ottomanica. But after 1913 up to now they lived in different regimes and states, coping with crucial challenges of protecting the authentic code of ethnical and religious identity. Looking from nationalistic viewpoint the gained independence from a great power and choosed to form their own national state, but even after one century of ȃdivorceȄ, there is an emotional link between Turks, Turkey and Albanians dispersed in six Balkan societies. However, the hard and unscrupulous antiottoman and antiturk propaganda did not succeed to cut this invisible tie between this to nations. This article is based on a empirical study, questionnaire applied in 2008-2009 with 571 respondents from Albania, Macedonia and Kosovo, including questions on konwledge on Turkish language, on perception of future of Turkey, meaning of Turkey for them, the best Balkan city, issue of sport, music, etc. keywords: Turk(ey), Albanians, cultural contact, antiturkism, antiottomanism, ideology, friendly country, Turkish art, Turkish sport 2. Turkish-Albanian relationships: The real historical- relational dimension 1 Full Professor, SEE University (Tetovë, Macedonia), a.pajaziti@seeu.edu.mk. 2 International Symposium: DzPast, Present and Future of Turkish-Albanian-Macedonian Relationsdz, Ankara Center For Thought And Research and International Balkan University (IBU), May 27-29, 2011 Skopje, Macedonia-Prishtinë, Kosovo (Mehmet Bulut & Mesut Idriz [eds.], Turkish-Albanian-Macedonian Relations: Past, Present and Future, ADAM-ACTOR, 2012, pp. 73-87).