Bota Sot

Bota Sot (English: World Today) is a daily newspaper in Kosovo, originally published by members of the Kosovo diaspora in Switzerland.

Bota Sot

Type	Daily newspaper
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.botasot.info

Bota Sot appears with a circulation of between 70,000 and 120,000, the majority of which is sold in Kosovo. In switzerland the newspaper has a cirulation of about 7,000.^[2]

The NZZ described the Bota Sot as an “anti-Serb and anti-Macedonian inflammatory newspaper”. How the newspaper is financed is not transparent.^[2]

History

The “World Today” founded in 1995, represents a worldview that has earned it various fines from the international authorities in Kosovo.^[2] 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 the Democratic League of Kosovo and the Democratic Party of Albania and has supported two previous presidents of Kosovo and Albania, Ibrahim Rugova and Sali Berisha.^[3]

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 of Lauša, near Pristina.^[4] Bardhyl Ajeti wrote daily editorials for Bota Sot, supporting the anticrime campaign of international authorities in arresting former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army.^[5] He was shot by unidentified assassins in June 2005.^[6]

See also

• List of newspapers in Kosovo

References

1. "Na Kontaktoni". Bota Sot (in Albanian). Archived from the original on 16 October 2013. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
2. "Keine unbeschriebenen Blätter". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in Swiss High German). 8 February 2008. ISSN 0376-6829. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
3. Attacks on the Press in 2001 – Yugoslavia (Report). Committee to Protect Journalists. February 2002. Archived from the original on 18 October 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2011 – via United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. the Geneva-based Bota Sot, supports politician Ibrahim Rugova and his leading ethnic Albanian party, the Democratic Alliance of Kosovo.
4. Attacks on the Press in 2001 – Yugoslavia (Report). Committee to Protect Journalists. February 2002. Archived from the original on 18 October 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2011 – via United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Bekim Kastrati, Bota Sot KILLED (motive unconfirmed) Kastrati, an ethnic Albanian journalist for the Albanian-language daily Bota 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.
5. "Bardhyl Ajeti". Committee to Protect Journalists. Retrieved 8 May 2011. Ajeti wrote daily editorials for Bota Sot, [...] supported international authorities who arrested former members of the Kosova Liberation Army (KLA) as part of a broader anticrime campaign
6. "Human Rights in the OSCE Region" (PDF). IHF Report 2006 (Report). 2006. pp. 362–363. Retrieved 8 May 2011. 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.

External links

• Official website