Ranko Ostojić (; born 3 October 1962) is a Croatian lawyer and

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politician who served as the 11th

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in the

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from December 2011 to January 2016. Ostojić graduated from the Split Faculty of Law in 1988. He held various positions in Split-based companies, and became involved in politics in 1990 when he joined SDP. Between 2001 and 2004 he served as assistant to Interior Minister Šime Lučin during Prime Minister

Ivica Račan Ivica Račan (; 24 February 1944 – 29 April 2007) was a Croatian politician who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 2000 to 2003, heading two centre-left coalition governments. Račan became the first prime minister of Croatia not to be a ...

's government and held the post of Director of Police. Before becoming government minister he served one term as MP in the 6th Sabor from 2007 to 2011 where he chaired the parliamentary committee for internal affairs and national security. During this time he also ran for mayor of Split in the 2009 local elections but finished runner-up with 34.7 percent of the vote, behind independent

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. In 2008, he was a member of the SDP delegation which visited Bleiburg. The final months of Ostojić's term as

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was marked by the

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, causing an inflow of over 39,000 migrants into Croatia from

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by 22 September 2015, after the construction of the border fence on the Serbia-Hungary border. Many migrants fled the Syrian Civil War, as well as poor economic conditions in

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and

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, with

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serving mainly as a transit country towards

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and

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. The villages of

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Ilača Ilača () is a Settlement (Croatia), village in eastern Croatia, southeast of Vinkovci. The village is connected with the rest of the country by the D46 (Croatia), D46 state road connecting it with the town of Vinkovci and continuing into Serbia ...

and Opatovac, as well as the city of

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served as the main acceptance centers for migrants in

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, while 1,200 were also housed at

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. By 22 September 2015 over 32,000 migrants had left Croatia through the neighbouring countries of the

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. A larger and permanent migrant center was set up in the city of

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