Ethnic Turk lawyer shot dead in Kosovo

Ethnic Turk lawyer shot dead in Kosovo
BBC Monitoring Europe (Political) - October 12, 2005, Wednesday

Text of report by Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA

Prizren, 12 October: Ethnic Turkish lawyer Ibis Cakali, 54, was killed in Prizren last night, Kosovo police have confirmed.

"The police had found the wounded Cakali in the Ortokol district of Prizren, from where he was rushed to hospital, where he died of his wounds," Kosovo police spokesman Bujar Zurljali told reporters.

He said that Cakali had been hit in a drive-by shooting.

The deceased lawyer was a member of the presidency of the Turkish Democratic Party.

The party president, Mahir Jagljilar, told SRNA that he hoped that Cakali's political affiliation and nationality were not the motive for the killing.

SOURCE: SRNA news agency, Bijeljina, in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 14:24 GMT, 12 Oct 05