Rexhepi

In North Macedonia's parliament on Monday, MP Kastriot Rexhepi said his absence from last Thursday's session, which aborted a planned vote of no confidence in the government had been his own decision. He had not been "kidnapped", as frustrated opposition lawmakers suggested. He had simply wanted to avoid unwarranted publicity.

Fourteen years later, in September 2020, the police came knocking, arresting 20 suspects in coordinated raids in 10 countries in Europe and the Middle East to dismantle the Albanian crime syndicate, 'Kompania Bello'.

The sudden exit of Sulejman Rexhepi, the long-standing and often provocative head of the country's second largest religious community, has left important questions unanswered.

The leader of the large Muslim community in North Macedonia, most of whom are ethnic Albanians, has been sacked for reasons that have not yet been divulged.

The head of the official Islamic Community of North Macedonia, IVZ, Sulejman Rexhepi, has been warned that he may face criminal charges if he persists with his threat to review the ban on public prayers in mosques.

Reis Sulejman Rexhepi recently referred to Macedonians as wild people, the website Plus Info is reporting.

There are many rags-to-riches success stories involving Albanian immigrants in Switzerland, where four players in the national football team are of Albanian or Kosovo origin - Granit Xhaka, Valon Behrami, Xherdan Shaqiri and Blerim Dzemaili.

Bajram Rexhepi, Kosovo's former prime minister and interior minister, has died in a hospital in Turkey following a stroke. He was 63.

Prime Minister Isa Mustafa said in a statement that Rexhepi, a surgeon by profession, passed away in the early hours on Aug. 21 following months of battling a grave illness. He was taken to Turkey after a stroke in April.

Bajram Rexhepi, the first elected Prime Minister of Kosovo following the 1999 war of independence, died on Monday at the age of 63 in a hospital in Turkey, where he had been receiving treatment for months following a stroke in April this year.

News of the death of Rexhepi was confirmed by his Kosovo Democratic Party, PDK.

Former Kosovo Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi died early on Monday in Istanbul, Turkey, Pristina-based media have reported, according to RTS.

Rexhepi suffered a stroke several months ago. He underwent surgery in a Pristina hospital, and then fell into a coma.