Fikret Abdić

Fikret Abdić
Fikret Abdić
Mayor of Velika Kladuša
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 8 November 2016
Preceded by	Edin Behrić
President of the Autonomous; Province of Western Bosnia
	In office; 27 September 1993 – 7 August 1995
Prime Minister	Zlatko Jušić
Preceded by	Post established
Succeeded by	Post abolished
1st Bosniak Member of the Presidency of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
	In office; 20 December 1990 – 20 October 1993; Serving with Alija Izetbegović
Preceded by	Post established
Succeeded by	Nijaz Duraković
Personal details
Born	29 September 1939; Velika Kladuša, Yugoslavia; (now Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Political party	SKJ (1958–1990); SDA (1990–1993); DNZ (1993–2013); LS BiH (2013–present);
Children	4, including Elvira
Profession	Economist; Businessman
Nickname	Babo

Fikret Abdić (born 29 September 1939), also known as Babo, 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. He won the popular vote in the Bosnian presidential elections of 1990.

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. He was imprisoned again in June 2020 on suspicion of abuse of his office as Mayor.

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