Bota Sot
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| Type | Dailynewspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Media Print |
| Publisher | Mazrekaj Media[1] |
| Editor | Idriz Morina[1] |
| Staff writers | 45 |
| Founded | 1995 |
| Political alignment | Democratic League of Kosovo Democratic Party of Albania |
| Headquarters | Zürich,Pristina |
| Circulation | 13,000 (daily) |
| Website | www |
Bota Sot(English:World Today) is a dailynewspaperinKosovo,originally published by members of theKosovo diaspora in Switzerland.
History
[edit]Bota Sotis published by Media Print and is owned by Xhevdet Mazrekaj, a diaspora businessman. The newspaper was published for the first time in 1995, and initially solely published abroad. The paper editorially supports theDemocratic League of Kosovoand theDemocratic Party of Albaniaand has supported two previous presidents of Kosovo and Albania,Ibrahim RugovaandSali Berisha.[2]
A number of the newspaper's journalists have been assassinated.Xhemail Mustafa,a journalist and advisor to President Rugova, was assassinated in November 2000.Bota Sotjournalist Bekim Kastrati was assassinated in October 2001, along with two other men who were in his car at the time, in the village ofLauša,nearPristina.[3]Bardhyl Ajetiwrote daily editorials forBota Sot,supporting the anticrime campaign of international authorities in arresting former members of theKosovo Liberation Army.[4]He was shot by unidentified assassins in June 2005.[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ab"Na Kontaktoni".Bota Sot(in Albanian). Archived fromthe originalon 16 October 2013.Retrieved15 March2023.
- ^Attacks on the Press in 2001 – Yugoslavia(Report).Committee to Protect Journalists.February 2002. Archived fromthe originalon 18 October 2012.Retrieved15 May2011– viaUnited Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
the Geneva-basedBota Sot,supports politician Ibrahim Rugova and his leading ethnic Albanian party, the Democratic Alliance of Kosovo.
- ^Attacks on the Press in 2001 – Yugoslavia(Report). Committee to Protect Journalists. February 2002. Archived fromthe originalon 18 October 2012.Retrieved15 May2011– via United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Bekim Kastrati,Bota SotKILLED (motive unconfirmed) Kastrati, an ethnic Albanian journalist for the Albanian-language dailyBota Sot,was shot on October 19 at around 8 p.m. in the village of Lausa, west of the provincial capital, Pristina, along with two other men who were riding in his car at the time.
- ^"Bardhyl Ajeti".Committee to Protect Journalists.Retrieved8 May2011.
Ajeti wrote daily editorials forBota Sot,[...] supported international authorities who arrested former members of the Kosova Liberation Army (KLA) as part of a broader anticrime campaign
- ^"Human Rights in the OSCE Region"(PDF).IHF Report 2006 (Report). 2006. pp. 362–363.Retrieved8 May2011.
On 25 June, Bardhyl Ajeti, a prominent journalist of one of the major Kosovo newspapers, died of gunshot wounds he had sustained on 3 June: he was shot by unidentified assassins while traveling toward Prishtina from his home town of Gjilan.
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