Former Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi's lifeless body arrives in Kosovo

Rexhepi passed away the day before he was 63.

He suffered brain attacks in April, from a coma. After several daily treatment in Kosovo, Rexhepi was sent for treatment to a Turkish hospital.

Rexhepi was born on 3 June 1954 in Mitrovica. Rexhepi had graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at Pristina University in 1979 and completed post-university studies in Zagreb in 1985.

He worked for years as a general surgeon and endoscopic specialist at the Mitrovica regional hospital until 1990.

During the 1999 war with Serbia, Rexhepi joined the Kosovo Liberation Army and spent three months in the mountains serving as a doctor in the operational zone of Shala.

Meanwhile, in 2002 the first prime minister of Kosovo's provisional self-government institutions had been elected.

Exactly, on March 4th 2002, after three months of talks and the intercession of then Kosovo chief administrator Michael Steiner, the Kosovo Assembly elected Bajram Rexhepi as Kosovo Prime Minister and Ibrahim Rugova as president. Rexhepi has been minister of Internal Affairs.

In the past period, Rexhepi had left politics and had returned to the profession as a surgeon at the Mitrovica regional hospital.