Nureddin al-Atassi

Nureddin al-Atassi نور الدين الأتاسي
President of Syria
In office February 25. 1966 – November 18, 1970
Preceded by	Amin al-Hafiz
Succeeded by	Ahmad al-Khatib
Prime Minister of Syria
In office October 29, 1968 – November 21, 1970
Preceded by	Yusuf Zuaiyin
Succeeded by	Hafez al-Assad
Personal details
Born	1930
Died	December 3, 1992 (Aged 62)
Political party	Baath Party

Noureddin Mohammed Ali al-Atassi (1930— 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.^[1] He was imprisoned without trial^[2] 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.

References

1. ^ "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. 
2. ^ "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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Name	Atassi, Noureddin al-
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Date of birth	1930
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Date of death	December 3, 1992
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