Ghassan Hitto

Ghassan Hitto (Arabic غسان هيتو; born 1963 in Damascus, Syria) was dated 18 March 2013 to 8 July 2013, the first Prime Minister of a supported of the opposition Syrian National coalition transitional government in the Syrian civil war. He is of Kurdish origin, and in addition to the Syrian and the U.S. citizenship.

Life

Hitto studied in the U.S. state of Indiana, Purdue University and Indiana Wesleyan University mathematics and computer science and received his bachelor 's and master's degrees. He then spent a long time in the United States, most recently in Wayne, Texas, where he worked as a businessman and manager in the telecommunications and IT industry. His wife, Suzanne Hitto, is an American teacher. The couple has four children, who were born in the United States. In Texas itself Hitto dedicated for Islamic school. He also founded a fund that Muslims in the U.S. who came under suspicion after the attacks on 11 September 2001, legal counsel possible.

In circles of the Syrian opposition Hitto was largely unknown until 2012. He then began humanitarian assistance to the people affected by the civil war to organize and eventually moved to Turkey to coordinate from there the work in the " liberated areas ". On March 18, 2013 Ghassan Hitto was elected with 35 of 49 votes for prime minister of the opposition. Some members of the panel, which includes actually about 70 people had, but the vote boycotted. The commander of the Free Syrian Army, Selim Idriss, assured him of his support. Hittos Critics, however, questioned whether a civilian who has lived for decades abroad, is really accepted by the numerous rebel groups and militias who are fighting against the government of Bashar al -Assad.

Ghassan Hitto is close to the Islamist movement. Rather leftist and liberal parts of the Syrian opposition, which rejected his choice, evaluated the decision for Hitto as a concession to the government of Qatar, which strongly supported the rebels, and especially the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood.

Hitto had its headquarters in Istanbul. He concludes from negotiations with President Assad and instead it uses its overthrow by the desertion of other officers of the government troops.

On July 8, 2013 he resigned from his job of prime minister of the interim government.