Nureddin al-Atassi

Nureddin Al Atassi

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Nureddin al-Atassi

Noureddin Mustafa al-Atassi
Atassi

Atassi, also sometimes spelled Atasi, is the name of a prominent family in Homs, Syria dating back to the 16th century AD.Background ...
(1930— December 3, 1992) (Arabic

Arabic language

Arabic is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages languages such as Hebrew language and Aramaic language....
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List of Presidents of Syria

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of Syria

Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
from February 1966 to November 1970. Though a long-time ideologue of the powerful Baath Party

Baath Party

The Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party was founded in Damascus in the 1940s by Michel Aflaq, a Syrian intellectual, as the original secular Arab nationalist movement, to unify all Arab countries in one State and to combat Western colonial rule that dominated the Arab region at that time....
who became its Secretary General as well as President of the Republic, he was considered to be largely a ceremonial figurehead, with real power vested in the Deputy Secretary General, Salah Jadid

Salah Jadid

Salah Jadid was a Syrian general and political figure in the Baath Party, and the country's de facto leader between 1966 and 1969/1970....
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List of Presidents of Syria

This page lists presidents and other Heads of State of Syria. See also lists of incumbents....
of Syria

Syria

Baath Party

Salah Jadid

Salah Jadid was a Syrian general and political figure in the Baath Party, and the country's de facto leader between 1966 and 1969/1970....
. He was a medical doctor by training, and in that capacity aided the Algeria

Algeria

Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country located in North Africa. It is the largest country of the Mediterranean sea, second largest in the Arab World, and the second largest on the African continent and the eleventh-largest country in the world in terms of land area....
n forces against the French

France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
in the Algerian War of Independence

Algerian War of Independence

The Algerian War , also known as Algerian War of Independence, led to Algeria's independence from France. An important decolonization war, it was a complex conflict characterized by guerrilla warfare, maquis fighting, terrorism against civilians, use of torture on both sides and counter-terrorism operations by the French Army....
. In 1970 he was deposed along with Salah Jadid in a coup

Coup d'état

A coup d??tat , often simply called a coup, is the sudden unconstitutional overthrow of a government by a part of the state establishment – usually the military – to replace the branch of the stricken government, either with another civil government or with a military government....
by Hafez al Assad, his defense minister. He was imprisoned without trial from that time until just before his death in 1992, when he was released and flown to France to receive medical treatment at the expense of the French government.