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Türkiye on Saturday marked the 21st death anniversary of Alija Izetbegovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina's first president who led the country to independence from the former Yugoslavia.

Serbian Education Ministry said on Thursday evening that it will carry out a review at the at the Vasa Stajic School in the northern city of Novi Sad and that "the provincial inspection will take action" to find out who was responsible after children aged 10 and 11 and a teacher were filmed dancing to an anti-Bosniak song.

The Sarajevo Cantonal Court has sentenced Mustafa Divjan to ten years in prison and Alija Gazibara to two years for crimes against civilians in the Ilidza area during wartime, the court told BIRN.

Divjan was found guilty of killing two Serb civilian prisoners on April 22, 1993 while he was a member of the Bosnian Army's Fourth Motorised Brigade.

Turkey on Oct. 19 marked the 18th anniversary of the death of Alija Izetbegovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina's first president and a pivotal figure in the troubled history of the Balkans.

Interpol on Friday published a "red notice" for Alija Keserevic, aged 23, from Buzim, northwest Bosnia, for organizing a terrorist group and unlawfully either establishing or joining foreign paramilitary or parapolice formations.

The Interpol website said it had published these charges on the request of Bosnia's justice organs.

Bakir Izetbegovic says that his father, Alija Izetbegovic, left it to Turkish President Recep Tajjip Erdogan to "safeguard" Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH).

According to him, this happened during "one of the last conversations Izetbegovic had with Erdogan."

Bakir Izetbegovic says that his father, Alija Izetbegovic, left it to Turkish President Recep Tajjip Erdogan to "safeguard" Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH).

According to him, this happened during "one of the last conversations Izetbegovic had with Erdogan."

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan paid tribute on Wednesday night to Bosnia's wartime president, Alija Izetbegovic, on the 13th anniversary of his death.

"Alija, as leader in the fight for Bosnian Muslims, enabled the survival of Europe's most important Islamic community," Erdogan tweeted. 

Izetbegovic on Thursday demanded an apology from Republka Srpska President Dodik for his comments about Alija Izetbegovic, the first president of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the incumbent Bosniak leader's late father.