Zlatko Hasanbegović

Zlatko Hasanbegović (Croatian pronunciation: [zlâtko xǎsanbeːɡoʋit͜ɕ]; born 14 June 1973) is a Croatian politician and historian who has served as a member of the Croatian Parliament since 2016. He served as Minister of Culture in the cabinet of Tihomir Orešković from 22 January to 19 October 2016. Hasanbegović is also a member of the Zagreb Assembly and one of the founders of the Independents for Croatia party.

As a historian, Hasanbegović's interests are relations between the modern Croatian ideologies, especially pravaštvo (Croatian nationalist ideology) and its relations towards Islam in Croatia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 19th and 20th centuries. He researches Muslim elements of the Croatian bourgeois culture until 1945 and relations of political parties as well as religious and national relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina since the Austro-Hungarian occupation until the communist takeover.

Hasanbegovic's scholarship has been described by international scholars and journalists as "an apologetic" for Croatian fascists and the crimes of the Ustasa. The Foreign Policy journal has referred to Hasanbegovic as an outright fascist, and in 2016, it was widely reported in the Croatian and international media that Hasanbegovic had published several articles in the 90's celebrating the regime of the Croatian fascists in WWII, calling them "heroes" and "patriots." One magazine printed a photograph of Hasanbegovic posing while wearing a cap similar to those worn by the Ustasha, a paramilitary organization similar to the SS, responsible for the mass deportation and murder of thousands of Jews, Serbs, Roma and Croatian Muslims and Catholics who opposed the regime. The Simon Wiesenthal Centre, a human rights organization, was outraged by Hasanbegovic's appointment and called for his immediate removal.

He was an associate of the Institute of Humanities Ivo Pilar.

From 2019, he is the president of the Bloc for Croatia political party.