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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 dailynewspaper inKosovo, originally published by members of theKosovo diaspora in Switzerland.
Bota Sot is 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 Kosovo and theDemocratic Party of Albania and has supported two previous presidents of Kosovo and Albania,Ibrahim Rugova andSali 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 Sot journalist 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 Ajeti wrote 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]
the Geneva-basedBota Sot, supports politician Ibrahim Rugova and his leading ethnic Albanian party, the Democratic Alliance of Kosovo.
Bekim Kastrati,Bota Sot KILLED (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.
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
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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