Ambassador to the US Bisera Turkovic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Turkovic said that in Bosnia, "People are shocked, people are saddened.
measures had been taken at the embassy or consulates.
Bisera Turkovic was Executive Director of the Centre for Security Studies in Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 2001 to 2004.
Turkovic was scheduled to join fellow countrymen for lunch at the Bosna Restaurant and attend an evening memorial at the library.
Turkovic was scheduled to have lunch with other Bosnians at the Bosna Restaurant and attend an evening memorial at the downtown library.
Bisera Turkovic is one of the founders of the radical Islamist Muslim SDA Party in Bosnia, a party that has had, since its foundation, strong links with al Qaeda, numerous other terrorist organizations, and even the intelligence mechanisms of Iran.
Turkovic was promoted by Izetbegovic and then founded the SDA Party in 1990.
Dix, Turkovic said that her terrorism-won country was shocked that a Bosnian-born teenager killed five people in a country that has granted our freedom, our prosperityBosnians came here to find refuge, to find safety from the Bosnian civil war in the 1990s, Ms.
A career diplomat, Turkovic was appointed Bosnia's ambassador to Croatia in 1993, only a year after Bosnia declared its independence.
Among other things, Turkovic has been Bosnia's minister of European integration as well as executive director of Sarajevo's Centre for Security Studies and lecturer of criminal justice at the University of Sarajevo.
Having lived through the worst of times, Turkovic says it is essential to bring to justice such war criminals as Serbian nationalist Radovan Karadzic and Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic, who orchestrated the massacre of up to 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica back in 1995.
Bosnians “can’t believe that somebody of Bosnian origin can do something like this,” Turkovic said Thursday during on a two-day visit from Washington.
Ambassador Bisera Turkovic met for lunch at a Bosnian restaurant with Mayor Rocky Anderson and local Bosnian-Americans.
Turkovic said Bosnians in Europe and across the United States had followed the news from Utah with shock and horror.
Turkovic described Americans as reasonable people who understand this is an act of one person, not a reflection on 300,000 Bosnian-Americans.
Turkovic said her country was saddened by Monday's shopping mall rampage - without apparent motive - that ended when police fatally shot Sulejman Talovic, 18.
Turkovic said her country was shocked that a Bosnian-born teenager would randomly shoot people in a country that has welcomed foreigners.
Izetbegovic and then founded the SDA Party in 1990.
Turkovic was accredited as Bosnian ambassador to Zagreb.
From 2001 to 2004, Turkovic was the executive director of the Centre for Security Studies in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a lecturer for the Criminal Justice Department at the University of Sarajevo.
Bosnian Ambassador Bisera Turkovic says her little Balkan country remains deeply indebted to the United States for putting an end to ethnic fighting that killed an estimated 250,000 people.
It's as simple as that," Ambassador Bisera Turkovic said in a recent interview.
Hillary Rodham Clinton's false claim that she flew into Bosnia under sniper fire in 1996 brought fresh attention to the Balkan nation still teetering over ethnic tensions, but Bosnian Ambassador Bisera Turkovic says that is not the kind of attention her country needs.