Behdžet Mutevelić

In memoriam

Behdžet Mutevelić, born in 1892, together with Avdo Sumbul, was the co-founder of the Gajret Muslim Cultural and Educational Society, founded in 1903. The main activities of Gajret were the spending of Muslims - high school and high school students in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. At the beginning of the 20th century, the idea of ​​liberation and unification of the South Slavic peoples flourished. As the Kingdom of Serbia was the most influential independent South Slavic state at that time, the prevailing opinion among supporters of unification was that it should be achieved under the patronage of the Serbian royal dynasty. Avdo Sumbul and Behdžet Mutevelić were ardent propagators of just such ideas. When Gavrilo Princip assassinated Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sofia on Vidovdan, June 28, 1914, in front of today's building of the 1878-1918 Museum, the reaction of the Austro-Hungarian authorities was swift and brutal. First, all the participants in the assassination were arrested, and soon all those who were known or suspected to be supporters of the idea of ​​unifying the South Slavs. Among them are Avdo Sumbul and Behdžet Mutevelić, who along with thousands of other Bosnian civilians and then Serbian soldiers were imprisoned in the Arad fortress in present-day Romania. more than four thousand prisoners died. Avdo Sumbul and Behdžet Mutevelić died in 1915. And, with the celebration of 25 years since the founding of Gajret, in 1928, the remains of Avdo Sumbul and Behdžet Mutevelić, two Muslims from Bosnia and Herzegovina, who dreamed of unifying the South Slavs, were transferred and buried in the courtyard of Ali Pasha's mosque. Two Sarajevo streets are named after Avdo Sumbul and Behdžet Mutevelić. Avdo Sumbula Street is in Bjelave, while Behdžet Mutevelić Street is in Grbavica.

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