Izet Dibra
{{Short description|Albanian politician}}
Izet Dibra (1878 – 1964) born Izet Shatku was an Albanian politician and mayor of Tirana from 1927 to 1928.{{cite web|url=http://www.tirana.gen.al/mayors.php|title=Mayors of Tirana|publisher=tirana.gen.al}} He also served as minister of public works in Pandeli Evangjeli's cabinet. His brother Faik had served as attorney general and minister of justice.
Life
Izet Dibra was born as Izet Shatku on May 19, 1878 in Debar, back then Ottoman Empire, today's North Macedonia.{{cite book| page=351| author=Michael Schmidt-Neke| title=Entstehung und Ausbau der Königsdiktatur in Albanien (1912-1939)| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vpIFsca3lKYC&q=izet+shatku| year=1987|publisher=Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag| isbn=978-3486543216}} His father Murat Ibrahim Shatku was a local merchant and financier.
Shatku took his initial studies in his native town, and followed later in Monastir. Preceding the Balkan Wars, his family moved to Turkey. There he completed studies in the Istanbul University for jurisprudence before returning to Albania in 1920. After certain lower positions in the judicial system, he was elected shortly sub-prefect of Elbasan prefecture. With the new assembly constitution, he became assembly member representing the Dibër prefecture. Until 1930 he served in several prefectures.{{cite book| title=Kujtime : vitet 1913-1933| author=Mehdi Frasheri| editor= Loredan Bubani| publisher=OMSCA-1| year=2005|location=Tirana| isbn=9789992752609| oclc= 75396797| pages=281–225}}{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pZ8MAAAAIAAJ&q=izet+dibra| author=Paul Edmonds| title=To the Land of the Eagle: Travels in Montenegro and Albania| page=237|year= 1927| publisher=G. Routledge & Sons, Limited| oclc=1852680}} A pro-Zog politician, he was elected minister of public works in Pandeli Evangjeli's cabinet.{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j7IvAAAAYAAJ&q=izet+dibra | page=202|location=London| author=Michael S. Farbman| title=Europa| year=1930|volume=II| oclc=25191898| publisher=Europa Publications Limited}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tyk4AQAAIAAJ&q=izet+dibra| year=1933| author=Council on Foreign Relations| publisher=Harper & Brothers| page=1| oclc= 78329078| title=Political handbook of the world}} 1n 1937 he was elected assembly member again.
After World War II, his properties and belongings would be confiscated and his family deported. He died in Shkodër in 11.02.1964.{{clarify|date=May 2014}}
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