According to the many French, English and other western journalists who interviewed him, and according to people who knew him, the only language he knew fluently was Albanian although he was also competent in Turkish.
به گفتهٔ بسیاری از خبرنگاران فرانسوی، انگلیسی و دیگر خبرنگاران غربی که با او مصاحبه کردند، تنها زبانی که او به صورت روان صحبت می‌کرد آلبانیایی بود، گرچه او در ترکی نیز سررشته داشت.