Salah al-Din al-Bitar

Salah al-Din al-Bitar
صلاح الدين البيطار
47th & 50th Prime Minister of Syria
In office
1 January 1966 – 23 February 1966
PresidentAmin al-Hafiz
Preceded byYusuf Zuayyin
Succeeded byYusuf Zuayyin
In office
13 May 1964 – 3 October 1964
PresidentAmin al-Hafiz
Preceded byAmin al-Hafiz
Succeeded byAmin al-Hafiz
In office
9 March 1963 – 11 November 1963
PresidentLu'ay al-Atassi
Amin al-Hafiz
Preceded byKhalid al-Azm
Succeeded byAmin al-Hafiz
Member of the National Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
In office
6 April 1947 – 1 September 1959
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
June 1956 – 22 February 1958
PresidentShukri al-Quwatli
Preceded bySaid al-Ghazzi
Succeeded byMahmoud Fawzi (UAR)
Personal details
Born1 January 1912
Damascus, Ottoman Syria, Ottoman Empire
Died21 July 1980 (aged 68)
Paris, France
Political partySyrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
Alma materUniversity of Paris

Salah al-Din al-Bitar (Arabic: صلاح الدين البيطار, romanizedṢalāḥ ad-Dīn al-Bīṭār;‎ 1 January 1912 – 21 July 1980) was a Syrian politician who co-founded the Arab Baʿth Party with Michel Aflaq in the early 1940s. As students in Paris in the early 1930s, the two formulated a doctrine that combined aspects of nationalism and socialism. Bitar later served as prime minister in several early Ba'athist governments in Syria but became alienated from the party as it grew more radical. In 1966 he fled the country, lived mostly in Europe and remained politically active until he was assassinated in Paris in 1980 by unidentified hitmen linked to the regime of Hafez al-Assad.[1][2][3][4]

  1. ^ Commins, David (2013). "Bitar, Salah al-Din al- (1912-1980)". Historical Dictionary of Syria (3rd ed.). Plymouth, UK: Scare Crow Press, Inc. p. 81. ISBN 978-0-8108-7820-4. Hafiz al-Asad's regime suspected Bitar of plotting against it, and, on 21 July 1980, he was assassinated in Paris by Syrian agents
  2. ^ Jongman, Albert J. (1988). Political Terrorism: A New Guide to Actors, Authors, Concepts, Data Bases, Theories, and Literature. Transaction Publishers. p. 670. ISBN 9781412815666. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
  3. ^ "Prominent Enemy Of Syria's Assad Is Slain in Paris". www.washingtonpost.com. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
  4. ^ Reich, Bernard (1990). "Salah al-Din Bitar (1912-1980)". Political Leaders of the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Press. pp. 110, 111. ISBN 0-313-26213-6. LCCN 89-7498.

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