Fikret Abdić
| Fikret Abdić | |
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| Mayor of Velika Kladuša | |
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Assumed office 8 November 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Edin Behrić |
| President of the Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia |
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In office 27 September 1993 – 7 August 1995 |
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| Preceded by | Post established |
| Succeeded by | Post abolished |
| Muslim Member of Presidency of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
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In office 1990 – 1992 Serving with Alija Izetbegović |
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| Preceded by | Post established |
| Succeeded by | Nijaz Duraković |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
29 September 1939 Donja Vidovska, Velika Kladuša, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| Political party |
LS BiH (2013–present) |
| Other political affiliations |
SKJ (before 1990) SDA (1990–1992) DNZ (1993–2012) |
| Children | Elvira Abdić-Jelenović |
| Profession | Economist Businessman |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Fikret Abdić (born 29 September 1939) is a Bosnian politician and businessman who first rose to prominence in the 1980s for his role in turning the Velika Kladuša-based agriculture company Agrokomerc into one of the biggest conglomerates in SFR Yugoslavia.
In the early 1990s, during the Bosnian War, Abdić declared his opposition to the official Bosnian government, and established the Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia, a small and short-lived province in the northwestern corner of Bosnia and Herzegovina composed of the town of Velika Kladuša and nearby villages.
The mini-state existed between 1993 and 1995 and was allied with the Army of Republika Srpska. In 2002 he was convicted on charges of war crimes against Bosniaks loyal to the Bosnian government by a court in Croatia and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment, which was later reduced on appeal to 15 years by the Supreme Court of Croatia.
On 9 March 2012, he was released after having served two thirds of his reduced sentence.
Fikret Abdić was born in the village of Donja Vidovska, Velika Kladuša, Kingdom of Yugoslavia on 29 September 1939.
Before the war, Abdić was the director of Agrokomerc, a company based in Velika Kladuša that he raised from a small agricultural cooperative into a modern food combine which employed over 13,000 workers, and which boosted the economy of the entire area. Agrokomerc transformed Velika Kladuša from a poverty-struck region to a regional powerhouse. Local residents of Velika Kladuša reportedly called him Babo (Daddy). He ran the company with strong political backing from influential politician Hamdija Pozderac and his brother, Hakija.
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