Džemal Bijedić
| Džemal Bijedić | |
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| 27th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia | |
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In office 30 July 1971 – 18 January 1977 |
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| President | Josip Broz Tito |
| Preceded by | Mitja Ribičič |
| Succeeded by | Veselin Đuranović |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
12 April 1917 Mostar, Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austro-Hungarian Empire |
| Died | 18 January 1977 (aged 59) near Kreševo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia |
| Nationality | Bosniak |
| Political party | League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ) |
Džemal Bijedić (Bosnian pronunciation: [bijěːdit͡ɕ]; 12 April 1917 – 18 January 1977) was a Bosniann Muslim Communist politician from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the prime minister of Yugoslavia from 1971 until his death.
Džemal Bijedić was born in Mostar, Austria-Hungary (in modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina) to parents Adem and Zarifa, into a Muslim merchant family. He finished his elementary and secondary education in Mostar, and graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, where he joined the League of Communists of Yugoslavia in 1939.
In a documentary produced by Face TV, claims that Bijedic joined the Domobrans () in April 1941, following the directives of League of Communists of Yugoslavia, as a lieutenant using an alias Ante Jukic. Another documentary about Džemal Bijedic produced by Federalna televizija shows (at 15:34) a photo of Bijedic dressed in a military uniform with Domobrans' collar insignia. The same photo was shown at the beginning of the first documentary (01:27), but the Domobrans' insignia was painted over with Partisans' red star in colour. It is also mentioned that Bijedic joined the Yugoslav Partisans in February 1943.
After the liberation, Bijedić had many political roles. From 1967, he was the president of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina Assembly. From July 1971 until his death in 1977, he was Prime Minister of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Bijedić played a vital role in affirming Muslims as a Yugoslav constitutive nation.
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