Hasan Turkmani

Hasan Turkmani
Hasan Turkmani
حسن توركماني‎
	Bashar al-Assad (centre) alongside Syrian Defense Minister General Mustafa Tlass (right) and Military Chief of Staff Hasan Turkmani (left).
Deputy Vice President for Military Affairs
	In office; 3 June 2009 – 18 July 2012
President	Bashar al-Assad
Prime Minister	Muhammad Naji al-Otari; Adel Safar; Riyad Farid Hijab
13th Minister of Defense
	In office; 12 May 2004 – 3 June 2009
Preceded by	Mustafa Tlass
Succeeded by	Ali Habib Mahmud
18th Chief of Staff of the Syrian Army
	In office; 23 January 2002 – 12 May 2004
Preceded by	Ali Aslan
Succeeded by	Ali Habib Mahmud
Member of the Regional Command of the Syrian Regional Branch
	In office; 9 June 2005 – 18 July 2012
Personal details
Born	1 January 1935; Aleppo, French Mandate of Syria
Died	18 July 2012 (aged 77); Damascus, Syria
Political party	Ba'ath Party
Military service
Allegiance	Syria
Branch/service	Syrian Armed Forces
Rank	Lieutenant General
Battles/wars	Yom Kippur War; Syrian Civil War

Hasan Ali Turkmani (Arabic: حسن توركماني; 27 January 1935 – 18 July 2012) was a prominent Syrian military commander and Ba'ath Party member. He served as the Minister of Defense in Syria from 2004 to 2009.^[1]

He and three other top Syrian government officials were killed on 18 July 2012 in Damascus during a bomb attack.

^ Bar, Shmuel (2006). "Bashar's Syria: The Regime and its Strategic Worldview" (PDF). Comparative Strategy. 25 (5): 436. doi:10.1080/01495930601105412. S2CID 154739379. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 15 May 2011.

[Bar_S.436-1] Bar, Shmuel (2006). "Bashar's Syria: The Regime and its Strategic Worldview" (PDF). Comparative Strategy. 25 (5): 436. doi:10.1080/01495930601105412. S2CID 154739379. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 15 May 2011.

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