Ibrahim Makhous
Brahim or Makhous Ibrahim ( born 1925 or 1928 in the village of Makhous, Governorate Latakia, Syria; † September 10, 2013 in Algiers, Algeria), sometimes also transcribed as Makhus or Makhos was a Baathist Syrian politicians. Between 1965 and 1968 he was twice Foreign Minister of his country. Since 1970, he led a breakaway of the Baath Party opposition party.
Minister of Health
Makhous comes from an Alawi family. Like his later allies Yusuf al - Atassi Noureddin Zuayyin and Makhous studied at Damascus University Medicine, joined the Baath Party and fought as a field doctor in the Algerian war with the rebels of the National Liberation Front ( FLN) against the French colonial power. After the seizure of the Baath Party in Syria in March 1963 he was transferred health minister in the cabinet of Baath co-founder Salah ad-Din al - Bitar and in November 1963 by his successor, Amin al- Hafiz, no longer, however, as of May 1964 in the second cabinet al - Bitar.
First Secretary of State
After several bloody struggles for power between military and baathinternen civilians Altbaathisten and Neobaathisten and " left" and "right" was al - Bitar as Premier initially overthrown in September 1965 and replaced by Zuayyin. Zuayyin announced an ambitious program of radical social reform toward a socialist transformation of Syria and a narrow foreign policy based on the Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc. Makhous took this course in foreign policy as Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister. Against this program was opposed by President Amin al - Hafiz, Bitar, and the right wing of the party and forced Zuayyin already in December 1965 initially to resign.
Again, Foreign Minister
After another Baath internal coup, the so-called movement of February 23, Hafiz and Bitar were finally overthrown by the Baath left wing under Salah Jadid early 1966. New president was al - Atassi, Zuayyin was again Premier. With the renewed appointment of Ibrahim Makhous as Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Syria was " three doctors" represents the outside. On April 26, 1966 Jadid, Atassi, Zuayyin, Makhous were elected at the head of the Syrian Baath Party. Inside Syria but raged a power struggle between the "left" military order Jadid and " right " military to Hafiz al - Assad, who especially came to a head after Syria's defeat in the Six Day War of 1967, which damaged Dschadids, Atassis, Zuayyins and Makhous ` popularity tremendously. In March 1968, Makhous therefore had to resign as Secretary of State and was transferred to a post in the Ministry of Agriculture. Under the pressure of Assad and Jadid Atassi had in October 1968 then Zuayyin drop so Makhous also lost this post.