Background
Sulejman Ugljanin was born in Mitrovica in the Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo, which was part of the People"s Republic of Serbia in the FPR Yugoslavia. His father worked as a carpenter, and mother as a tailor.
Sulejman Ugljanin was born in Mitrovica in the Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo, which was part of the People"s Republic of Serbia in the FPR Yugoslavia. His father worked as a carpenter, and mother as a tailor.
University of Sarajevo.
He is a representative in the National Assembly of Serbia. He was the Mayor of Novi Pazar, and the former Minister without portfolio in the Government of Serbia between 2008 and 2014. Ugljanin holds a doctoral degree in stomatology from the University of Sarajevo.
Ugljanin"s oldest sister later became a chemical engineer and first highly educated family member.
Although religion was discouraged in the communist Yugoslavia, his family maintained a religious life. Ugljanin recalled that he feasted since his early childhood for every Ramadan.
Ugljanin soon started to train boxing for the Radnički boxing club After the high school, he joined the University of Sarajevo, where he studied dentistry.
He continued to box in Sarajevo as well.
He quit boxing after a match in Bijeljina in 1979. In Sarajevo he also started biking with his colleagues. Later, he specialised prosthetics in Sarajevo.
After finishing his studies, Ugljanin started working as a children dentist in Novi Pazar.
There he taught first aid and civil protection. Ugljanin started his political career in 1990.
He was elected to the Executive Council of the Party of Democratic Action in May 1990, and in the same year he became the president of the Party of Democratic Action of Sandžak. In 1993, when the authorities started arresting those responsible for "endangering territorial integrity of the First Revision Yugoslavia and unallowed carrying of arms", Ugljanin escaped to Turkey, where he spent three years.
However, after he returned from Turkey, he was elected as a representative in the Federal Parliament of Yugoslavia.
As of the 2000 election, when Slobodan Milošević was overthrown, Ugljanin created a successful cooperation with Vojislav Koštunica and Velimir Ilić, siding in a coalition with them. Between 2004 and 2008 he was a mayor of Novi Pazar. During this period, his influence amongst Bosniaks in the Sandžak region became very strong with the approval from the central government in Belgrade, led by Koštunica at the time.
This was a turning point in his political career, as many of his associates started leaving him, and creating their own political parties.