Born to a Bosniak father, Ismet and a Serb mother, Radmila, Brkić started playing basketball when he was 10 years old in Bosna from Sarajevo.

[1] In spring 1992, with the outbreak of the Bosnian War, seventeen-year-old Brkić fled to Serbia where he initially stayed with his maternal grandmother in Požarevac.

A year later, he returned to Belgrade, beginning the 1993–94 season with the Partizan first team led by the also newly arrived head coach Željko Lukajić.

[4] Brkić suited up for the Yugoslav national basketball team in several preparation friendly games, never managing to make the final cut for the big competitions.

"[7] On the 18th of December 2023, an episode of "Na mestu zločina sa Mašanom" (At the crime scene with Mašan) was released, covering the death of Haris.