Background
Kulović was born to an old and prominent Bosniak family of Janissaries in the city of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, while it was part of the Ottoman Empire.
mayor politician Mayor of Sarajevo
Kulović was born to an old and prominent Bosniak family of Janissaries in the city of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, while it was part of the Ottoman Empire.
He was mayor during the Bosnian crisis of 1908. His father was the only son of Sarajevo"s qadi Sulejman Ruždija Kulović, after whom a street was named in Sarajevo in Ottoman times. Kulović was well-educated.
In addition to his native Bosnian, he spoke Turkish, Arabic, Persian and French.
In 1884, he was elected the municipality representative of Sarajevo. Kulović became Mayor of Sarajevo in 1905.
He was the mayor during the 1908 Bosnian crisis, when Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Ottoman Empire.