Nureddin al-Atassi
Nureddin al - Atassi Mustafa ( born 1929 in Syria, Homs, † December 3, 1992 in France; Arabic نور الدين مصطفى الأتاسي, DMG Nūr ad -Din Mustafa al - Atasi ) was from 1966 to 1970 and President from 1968 to 1970 also Prime Minister of Syria.
Life
Al- Atassi comes from the Syrian landowner family Atassi. After his dental degree, he joined initially as a physician of the Front de Libération Nationale and fought with this in Algeria against French colonial troops.
As representatives of the left wing of the Baath Party, he was after the breakup of the Baathist - Nasserist coalition in August 1963, Amin al- Hafiz, first minister of the interior, in October 1964 Deputy Prime Minister and after deduction from Muhammad Umrans September 1965 to December 1965 and Vice President ( since May 1964 he was a member of the presidential Council ), before he was replaced as Vice President of Shibli al - Aysami. After another left- coup within the party on February 25, 1966 against al- Hafiz Atassi eventually became secretary general of the Syrian Baath Party and President of Syria. In September 1967, Atassi was also elected Secretary General of the newly formed Syrian Arab Baath leadership overall. 29 October 1968, he was also Prime Minister, but de facto ruler was General Salah Jadid from 1966 to 1969.
The two main political allies Atassis were Zuayyin Yusuf and Ibrahim Makhous as Atassis also physicians ( " three doctors " ) and representatives of the left wing of the Baath, while Nureddin al - Atassi Jamal cousin belonged to his inner-party opponents. Under Atassi therefore acted Zayyen mostly as Premier, Vice Premier and Foreign Minister as Makhous.
Salah Jadid later, the then Minister of Defense Hafez al -Assad and President Atassi gave each other the blame for the defeat in the Six Day War in 1967. Jadid complained Assad have retained despite his insistence and supplication on the front much needed elite forces in Damascus. Assad declared to have this command get directly from Atassi, who had feared a Baath coup using the internal hosted in Syria Iraqi allies. Atassi, however, lamented that both generals did not obey the civilian head of state.
After the defeat Atassi demanded in September 1967, the Presidents of Egypt, Iraq and Algeria, with to form " Syria a Unitary State of the Socialist Arab", but without finding 1968 significant support for this project at a meeting with his counterparts in Cairo. In June 1969 Atassi reiterated Syria plane next to a military alliance with Iraq and Jordan a " political union with progressive Arab countries, particularly Egypt." In parallel, said Iraq's President Hasan al -Bakr, that must be an Iraqi- Syrian union of the beginning of an Arab union.
About the attitude of Syria against the Black September in Jordan, in 1970 it came to the final rift between Atassi, Jadid and Assad. After a coup known as the " corrective movement " Atassi was replaced on 18 November 1970 as president or as prime minister on 21 November of projected to the right wing of the Baath Party military to Assad and imprisoned without trial ( while some sources, eg had. Who's Who, first assumed a flight into exile Libyan ). His supporters were split among Makhous ' leadership as " the Arab Socialist Democratic Baath Party " from and joined the opposition pro-democracy movement of 1980. Atassis poor health leads to his release in 1992, after which he went to the ( ultimately unsuccessful ) medical treatment in France.
Civil rights activist Ali al - Atassi (born 1967 ) is Nureddin son. Along with Jamal al - Atassis daughter Zuhair he founded in 2000 a pro-democracy movement ( Atassi Forum), which was banned in 2001.
Swell
- The International Who's Who 1988-89. 52nd edition, Europa Publications Limited, London 1988
- Nureddin el Atassi, International Biographical Archive 12/1993 of 15 March 1993 ( lm), in Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available )