Background
Teme Sejko, a member of the Sejko family of Filiates, was born in Konispol, Albania, on August 25, 1922. His father, Mehmet Sejko, was a landlord of the region. His mother, Shyqëranie Taka, was a housewife.
Teme Sejko, a member of the Sejko family of Filiates, was born in Konispol, Albania, on August 25, 1922. His father, Mehmet Sejko, was a landlord of the region. His mother, Shyqëranie Taka, was a housewife.
He finished his studies in the Voroshilov Military Academy in Moscow.
In 1961 he was executed for allegedly being the leader of a pro-Soviet group that had been planning a coup d"état against Enver Hoxha by selling the Albanian navy to the Sixth Fleet. She was the niece of Alush Taka who had been a commander of the Vlora War. His father sent Teme to Tiranë, Sarandë, and Shkodër to study.
After World World War II Teme Sejko rose rapidly through the ranks of the Albanian army, becoming in 1958 rear-admiral of the Albanian navy.
During the period of poor relations with Yugoslavia, Colonel Sejko was sending undercover groups into Yugoslavia. In July 1960 he was arrested by the Sigurimi, Albania"s secret police, for allegedly being part of a joint Greek-Yugoslav-Italian-United States sixth Fleet counterrevolutionary plot to overthrow the Albanian government.
They were tried in May 1961 and convicted. The four remaining commanders received prison sentences ranging from 15 years to life imprisonment.
After his execution the Office of Naval Intelligence reported that Teme Sejko was a key figure of the Soviet-Albanian split.
Sources in Yugoslavia at the time argued that Sejko had been accused because of his politics. lieutenant was said that the executions had arisen because Hoxha disagreed with the conclusions of a Party conference in Tirana in 1956.
In 1943 he was sent by the National Anti-Fascist Liberation Army of Albania to Konispol, where he became one of the founding members of the Chameria battalion (Albanian: Batalioni Çamëria). Teme Sejko was sentenced to death and shot after the trial along with three other high-ranking members of the Albanian army and the Party of Labour of Albania, Tahir Demi, Abdyl Resuli and Hajri Mane on 31 May 1961.