An Interview That Collapsed Before It Began

On Kanal 10, Kushtrim Sadiku armed Albin Kurti with inaccuracies. Kurti did not evade scrutiny. He dismantled it, exposing journalistic negligence in real time.

On 11 December 2025, Kosovo’s prime minister, Albin Kurti, appeared in a long studio interview on Kanal 10¹ with the journalist Kushtrim Sadiku. It was billed as a serious domestic reckoning after months of tension, criticism, and controversy. What unfolded instead was something more revealing and more troubling. Not a confrontation between political power and journalistic scrutiny, but an encounter in which inaccurate claims, loosely framed allegations, and factual errors repeatedly handed the advantage to a disciplined and well prepared politician, allowing Kurti to dominate the exchange with ease.

The interview did not unravel when Albin Kurti grew combative. It unravelled much earlier, in the quiet seconds when Kushtrim Sadiku began constructing questions on foundations that would not hold. I was watching closely enough to notice the pattern before it hardened into farce. Assertions were smuggled in as facts. Legal processes were described as though they had already reached verdict.…