Hakija Turajlić

Hakija Turajlić

Infobox Person
name = Hakija Turajlić


caption = Hakija Turajlić
birth_date = 1937
birth_place = Čapljina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
dead=dead
death_date = death date|1993|1|8|mf=y
death_place = Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina|

Hakija Turajlić (1937 - January 8, 1993) was a Bosnian politician and businessman who served as the deputy Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina until he was murdered in 1993. [ [http://docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/DM/lib00377,0ED3D368B994AE8D.html Bosnian official's slaying shatters Muslim trust in UN protection.] Dallas Morning News, February 10, 1993.]

Prior to the start of the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turajlić was the director of the multifaceted Bosnian company Energoinvest and as such secured large sums of money for the defense of the country.

Murder

On January 8, 1993 Hakija Turajlić went to Sarajevo International Airport to greet Orhan Sefa Kilercioğlu who accompanied an aid shipment from Turkey. In order to return to Sarajevo he had to pass through Serb controlled territory for which UNPROFOR was supposed to provide protection. The UN convoy which was taking Turajlić to Sarajevo was stopped by Serb soldiers at a roadblock a few kilometers from the airport. After a 90 minute standoff a French UNPROFOR officer opened the door to the armoured personnel carrier in which Turajlić was sitting and a Serb soldier opened fire with an AK-47. Turajlić was hit with 7-8 rounds. His murder strained relations between the Bosnian government and UNPROFOR and was also the reason that peace talks in Geneva were cancelled. The UN and the Serbs both refused to cooperate with the Bosnian government investigation and help find the killer. A Bosnian Serb soldier, Goran Vasic, was eventually charged with Turajlić's murder but ultimately acquitted of that charge in 2002. [ [http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/98024384.html?dids=98024384:98024384&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&fmac=&date=Jan+4%2C+2002&author=&desc=WORLD%3B+In+Brief WORLD; In Brief.] Washington Post, January 4, 2002. Quote:"A Sarajevo court has convicted a Bosnian Serb soldier of committing war crimes against prisoners but acquitted him of killing the country's deputy prime minister. Goran Vasic was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison, local media reported. He was convicted on charges of beating prisoners at the Medjarici camp in Sarajevo during the country's 1992-1995 war. The court said it lacked evidence to convict him of killing Hakija Turajlic, the deputy prime minister of Bosnia in 1992."]

Honors

A street in the Dobrinja section of Sarajevo is named in his honor.

References


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