page_title: Dina Bajraktarević
section_title: Early life and family
hierarchical_section_title: Dina Bajraktarević / Early life and family
caption_attribution_description: English: Personal photograph of Mehmed Bajraktarević (1909–1966), father of w:Silvana Armenulić, circa 1940.
context_page_description: Hajrudina Bajraktarević Nikolić, known professionally as Dina Bajraktarević, is a Bosnian former singer and the younger sister of Silvana Armenulić and Mirjana Bajraktarević. Both of her sisters died in a car crash in 1976.
context_section_description: Hajrudina Bajraktarević was born in Doboj, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia to a Muslim Bosniak family with thirteen children. Her father was Mehmed Bajraktarević (1909–1966), a local cake shop operator, and her mother was Hajrija (1916–2008). The family surname has origins in the Ottoman Empire; bajrak is the Turkish word for flag. Hajrudina's sister Silvana (born Zilha) started singing at an early age, but their father, a local cake shop operator, was not supportive of her singing career.
  Dina had a brother named Hajrudin who died about two weeks after being mauled by a dog in the 1940s. After her brothers death, her father found solace in alcohol and solitude, neglecting the family and his business. After her father's cake shop closed, the family suffered greatly. The family of thirteen children included sisters Hajrudina, Zilha (Silvana), Abida, Mirsada and Ševka, and brothers Hajrudin, Muhamed, Izudin, Abudin, and Ismet. Her oldest sister Ševka's son Sabahudin Bilalović became a professional basketball player who died aged 43 of a heart attack on the beach while swimming with his son. Ten years later, Ševka and her husband Lutvo both died of natural causes in September 2013, just days apart.
  In 1955, Silvana moved to Sarajevo at the age of sixteen where she lived with her aunt and sang in local kafanas for money. She eventually landed a professional singing career which led way to sister Mirsada getting a record deal and recording her first album at the age of eighteen in 1969 and releasing it in 1970.
  The singing sisters, Silvana and Mirsada, died together in a car crash on 10 October 1976 near the Serbian village Kolari. At the time, Mirsada, who was in the second term of her pregnancy, was sharing a home with Dina.
caption: Bajraktarević's father, Mehmed, died in 1966.