Nasuhi al-Bukhari

Nasuh al -Bukhari or Nasouh Boukhari (Arabic نصوح البخاري; * 1881 in Damascus, Syria Vilayet, † July 1, 1961 ) was a Syrian colonel and politician.

Life

Nasuh al -Bukhari received his education at the Ottoman Military Academy in Constantinople Opel. He served during the First World War in the Ottoman army until he was captured by the Allies. After he had fled in 1916 from exile in Siberia, he went back to Konstantin Opel.

When the Ottomans capitulated in 1918, is Faisal I as king of Syria said, whereupon the garrison Bukhari in Aleppo commanded before he was sent in January 1920 to Cairo as military attaché in Egypt. In July 1920, the League of Nations Mandate for Syria and Lebanon was declared under French supervision, whereupon Haqqi al -Azm was appointed Governor of Damascus in September 1920. In December 1920 this Bukhari appointed as Minister of Military Affairs. He remained there until 1922, after the defeat of the Great Revolt of 1926, Druze Ahmad Nami from French Commissioner Henri de Jouvenel as Chairman of an Interim Council of Ministers in the new state of Syria appointed. ; Bukhari served until February 1928 as Minister of Agriculture in Nami's Cabinet.

On April 5, 1939 during a government crisis between the ruling National Bloc and the opposition, asked the nationalist leader Khalid Hashim al - Atassi Bukhari with the formation of a government without the participation of the parties. In addition to his position as Prime Minister Bukhari held the ministerial portfolios of Interior and Defense and appointed the veteran politician unabhöngigen Khalid al -Azm to the Minister of Economic Affairs. Bukhari was responsible for the discussions on the ratification of the Franco- Syrian Treaty of Independence in 1936. This however broke off when the French withdrew from the negotiations and demanded several military bases in the country. On July 8, 1939 Bukhari resigned as Prime Minister.

Between August 1943 and November 1944 Bukhari was education minister and acting defense minister in the cabinet of Saadallah al - Dschabiri. However, his advocacy of a Syrian army conscription was unpopular with the voters in Damascus. After he had lost his parliamentary seat in the 1947 election, he withdrew from the political scene.