Bošnjak (newspaper)

Bošnjak was a Bosnian newspaper. In early April 1891, the Bosnian government gave support to a request by a group of Bosniaks led by Mehmed-beg Kapetanović Ljubušak, then Mayor of Sarajevo, for the publication of this political paper.^[1] The first issue of Bošnjak was published on 2 July 1891. The owner until issue number 17 was Mehmed-beg Kapetanović Ljubušak, and the editor was Hilmo Muhibić. One of the later editors was Edhem Mulabdić, as well as Šukri Karišiković and Muhamed Senai Softić. The newspaper was printed in Latin script in the Bosnian language.^[2]

In Bošnjak it was written:

Dočim Hrvati tvrde da su pravoslavci naši najveći dušmani i da je Srpstvo isto što i pravoslavlje, Srbi se upinju iz petnih žila da nas upozore na svoju izmišljenu historiju po kojoj su posrbili vascijeli svijet. Mi nećemo nikad poreći da pripadamo južnoslavenskoj porodici, ali ćemo ostati Bošnjaci, kao i naši preci, i ništa drugo.^[3]

[While the Croats claim that the Orthodox are our greatest enemies and that Serbdom is the same as Orthodoxy, the Serbs are straining every nerve to acquaint us with their fabricated history according to which they have Serbized the entire world. We will never deny that we belong to the South Slavic family, but we will remain Bosniaks, like our ancestors, and nothing else.]