Salah al-Din al-Bitar

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Salah al-Din al-Bitar صلاح الدين البيطار
47th & 50th Prime Minister of Syria
In office 1 January 1966 – 23 February 1966
President	Amin al-Hafiz
Preceded by	Yusuf Zuayyin
Succeeded by	Yusuf Zuayyin
In office 13 May 1964 – 3 October 1964
President	Amin al-Hafiz
Preceded by	Amin al-Hafiz
Succeeded by	Amin al-Hafiz
In office 9 March 1963 – 11 November 1963
President	Lu'ay al-Atassi Amin al-Hafiz
Preceded by	Khalid al-Azm
Succeeded by	Amin 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
President	Shukri al-Quwatli
Preceded by	Said al-Ghazzi
Succeeded by	Mahmoud Fawzi (UAR)
Personal details
Born	1 January 1912 Damascus, Ottoman Syria, Ottoman Empire
Died	21 July 1980 (aged 68) Paris, France
Political party	Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
Alma mater	University of Paris

Salah al-Din al-Bitar (Arabic: صلاح الدين البيطار, romanized: Ṣalāḥ 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.^[a]
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