[1] Chief Mufti Muamer Zukorlić's Bosniak Cultural Community opened an office in Sjenica in February 2010, and Kurtović was chosen as its manager.
The results were extremely contentious, and the legitimacy of the Bosniak Cultural Community's victory was contested by both the Serbian government and Ugljanin's party.
[15] After the 2022 Serbian parliamentary election (in which Kurtović was not a candidate), the SPP joined Serbia's coalition government led by the SNS.
Kurtović was appointed as a secretary of state in the ministry of human and minority rights and social dialogue in November 2022 and resigned from the municipal assembly the following month.
[16][17] Among his responsibilities in his first term as secretary of state was to inaugurate a social housing project specifically directed to the Roma community in Raška in August 2023.
[18] In March 2024, he spoke at a conference in Sarajevo on the protection of national minorities, promoting Serbia as a regional leader in the field.
[20] He received a mandate on 1 May 2024 as a replacement for party leader Usame Zukorlić, who had been appointed as a minister without portfolio in Serbia's government.