Nureddin al-Atassi
| Nureddin al-Atassi نور الدين الأتاسي |
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| Secretary of the Syrian Regional Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party | |
| In office 23 February 1966 – November 1970 |
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| Deputy | Salah Jadid |
| Preceded by | Amin al-Hafiz |
| Succeeded by | Hafez al-Assad |
| President of Syria | |
| In office 25 February 1966 – 18 November 1970 |
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| Preceded by | Amin al-Hafiz |
| Succeeded by | Ahmad al-Khatib |
| Prime Minister of Syria | |
| In office 29 October 1968 – 21 November 1970 |
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| Preceded by | Yusuf Zuaiyin |
| Succeeded by | Hafez al-Assad |
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| Born | 1929 Homs, Syria |
| Died | 3 December 1992 (aged 63) Paris, France[1] |
| Political party | Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Noureddin Mohammed Ali al-Atassi (1929 – 3 December 1992) (Arabic: نور الدين بن محمد علي الأتاسي Nūr ad-Dīn Muṣṭafā al-'Atasī) was President of Syria from February 1966 to November 1970. Though a long-time ideologue of the powerful Baath Party who became its General Secretary as well as President of the Republic, he was considered to be largely a ceremonial figurehead, with real power vested in the Deputy General Secretary, Salah Jadid. He was a medical doctor by training, and in that capacity aided the Algerian forces against the French in the Algerian War of Independence. In 1970 he was deposed along with Salah Jadid in a coup by Hafez al-Assad, his defense minister.[2] He was imprisoned without trial[3] 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.
[edit] References
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- ^ "Nureddin Atassi; Ex-President of Syria, Toppled in Coup". The Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times 1992-12-05. http://articles.latimes.com/1992-12-05/news/mn-1132_1_atassi-syria-president. Retrieved 2010-09-05.
- ^ "Further information on medical letter writing action (MDE 24/11/92, 12 May and follow-up MDE 24/25/92, 1 September) - Syria: Dr Nour al-Din al-Atassi and others". Amnesty International 1992-12-07. http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE24/029/1992/en. Retrieved 2010-09-05.
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