Bektić was born to Bosniak-Sunni Muslim parents in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica, Socialist Federal Republic Yugoslavia (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina) and relocated to Italy with his mother and brothers at the age of three to flee the Bosnian War.
Bektić was born to Bosniak-Sunni Muslim parents in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica, Socialist Federal Republic Yugoslavia (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina). At the age of three, he relocated to Italy with his mother and brothers fleeing the Bosnian War.