The Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services (AVMS) conducted an extraordinary program supervision on the Second Channel of the Public Broadcasting Service – MRT 2 on the music program “Children’s Song Festival – The Bilbilites of Korab” broadcast on March 28, 2026. The supervision report is published on the Agency’s website at the following link.
The findings of the supervision are that the performance of the song “Albanian Territories (Trojet Shqiptare)” incites and spreads intolerance based on national and ethnic affiliation through irredentist symbols and explicit political messages to promote a monoethnic, irredentist bequest for the unification of territories. The girl who sang the song “Albanian Territories (Trojet Shqiptare)” was wearing a T-shirt on the front of which a clear illustration of the map of the so-called Greater Albania which includes the territories of Albania, Montenegro, Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo and Greece, which represents a territory where ethnic Albanians live or have lived, and on the back of the T-shirt in Albanian the words “1 GJUHË, 1 KOMB, 1 GJAK” (“One language, one people, one blood”) were written. Also, during the stage performance, the performer of the song and the two dancers showed the symbol of a double-headed eagle with their hands several times. In addition, the lyrics of the song contained messages calling for expansionism and territorial unification of countries and cities in the region, including the territories of the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania and Montenegro. During the monitoring, the Agency applied the criteria from the Guide for Monitoring Hate Speech, the standards of the European Convention on Human Rights and the practice of the European Court of Human Rights (the cases of Roy TV v. Denmark and Zana v. Turkey). It was determined that the restriction of this type of expression is prescribed by law, has a legitimate aim (protection of national security, public order and the rights of others) and is necessary in a democratic society.
