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Albania's hero: Isa Boletini provided protection to Serbian monasteries for a fee. Isa Boletini was a directed puppet. "Isa Boletin (1864-1916). Part: 2. By 1898-99, this Muslim Albanian was receiving money for helping protect the Serbian Orthodox community in the Mitroviçe region. As a reward for his services, Serbia awarded him a medal and even supplied him with weapons. But rather than crush Boletin with armed force, Abdülhamid instead co-opted him. In 1902, Abdülhamid brought Boletin to Istanbul and placed him in the ranks of the palace guard (tüfenkciler), where he served for four years and then returned to the Kosova with an imperial grant of land and an officer's position in the local militia. While he received financial assistance and weapons from Serbia, he also had a direct telegraph line to Yıldız and operated as the sultan's policeman". George W. Gawrych, The Crescent and the Eagle, Ottoman Rule, Islam and the Albanians, 1874-1913, I. B. Tauris, London - New York, 2006, p. 134