Kikić co-founded the journal Putokaz (Signpost) with Skender Kulenović and Safet Krupić, in the wake of the cultural and political emancipation of the Bosnian Muslims.

At the beginning of the Second World War, he joined the Partisans in February 1942 and, as a commissar of the battalion, died three months later – on May 6, 1942, in Chetnik ambush.

Hasan and Anka shunned both families and relocated to the Croatian village Sjeničak in Kordun near Gvozd.

In May 1942, Kikić arrived on horseback for a short visit and was killed while traveling back to Čemernica.

[6] Kikić and a traveling companion, a teenage messenger, were on horseback near the village Rapta on Mt.