Former Kosovo Prime Minister, Bajram Rexhepi died on Monday. The news was confirmed by the local media, which report that Rexhepi passed away this morning.

From weeks he was in coma in a hospital in Turkey where he goes after the deterioration of his health conditions from some brain attacks.

Rexhepi was the former Interior Minister of the Republic of Kosovo and was member of the Kosovo Assembly. He was also the first elected post-war Prime Minister of Kosovo and a member of the second largest political party in Kosovo, the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK).

Rexhepi was born in Mitrovica, Province of Kosovo on 3 June 1954. He graduated from the University of Prishtina and completed his postgraduate studies at the University of Zagreb in 1985.