Sulejman Tihić

Infobox_President | name=Sulejman Tihić


nationality=Bosnian
small| order=4th Bosniak member of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Presidency
term_start= October 5 2002
term_end= November 6 2006
predecessor=Beriz Belkić
successor=Haris Silajdžić
birth_date=birth date and age|1951|11|26
birth_place=Bosanski Šamac, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then Yugoslavia
dead=alive
death_date=
death_place=
spouse=
party= SDA
vicepresident=

Sulejman Tihić was a member of the tripartite Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, representing that nation's Bosniak community from October 2002 until November 6 2006. He was Chairman of the Presidency between February 28 2004 and October 2004 and Chairman of the House of Peoples since
November 14 2007.

Sulejman Tihić was born in the town of Šamac, northern Bosnia, SFR Yugoslavia. Tihić got his degree in Law from the University of Sarajevo. In 1990, he was one of the founding members of the Bosniak Party of Democratic Action (SDA). During the war, Tihić was interned in a Serbian concentration camp, regarding which he said (to a Slovenian Television reporter) that: " [I] would not have survived the camp if there were no good Serbs." From 1994 to 1999, Tihić served as a diplomat in the Bosnian Foreign Ministry, in the rank of Minister Counsellor.

On October 13 2001, Tihić was chosen to succeed Alija Izetbegović as head of the SDA party. He was elected to the Presidency on October 5 2002. He won the elections once more in 2005. He is married, with three children.

External links

* [http://www.tihic.ba/ The Website of Sulejman Tihic]
* [http://www.usip.org/events/2006/0512_bosnia.html Town Hall Meeting with Sulejman Tihic] , "U.S. Institute of Peace", May 2006 (Audio)
* [http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=137427 Bosnian president 'threatened' by US-based Serbs] , "Turkishpress.com", August 14, 2006