Mustafa Tlass

Mustafa Tlass
مصطفى طلاس‎
Portrait of Tlass in 1988
12th Minister of Defense
In office 22 March 1972 – 12 May 2004
President	Nureddin al-Atassi (1968–1970) Ahmad al-Khatib (1970–1971) Hafez al-Assad (1971–2000) Bashar al-Assad (2000–2004)
Preceded by	Hafez Assad
Succeeded by	Hasan Turkmani
Chief of Staff of the Syrian Army
In office 1968–1972
Preceded by	Ahmed Suidani
Succeeded by	Yusuf Shakkur
Member of the Regional Command of the Syrian Regional Branch
In office 28 September 1968 – 9 June 2005
In office 4 April 1965 – December 1965
Personal details
Born	Mustafa Abdul Qadir Tlass (1932-05-11)11 May 1932 Rastan, French Syria
Died	27 June 2017(2017-06-27) (aged 85) Bobigny, France
Political party	Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party Was a member of the original Ba'ath Party and its Syrian Regional Branch until 1966
Relations	Nahed Tlass (daughter) Manaf Tlass (son) Firas Tlass (son) Abdul Razzaq Tlass (nephew) Akram Ojjeh (Son-in-law) Mansour Ojjeh (Grandson-in-law)
Military service
Allegiance	Syria
Branch/service	Syrian Army
Years of service	1952–2004
Rank	Colonel General
Battles/wars	Six-Day War Yom Kippur War Lebanese Civil War Gulf War

Mustafa Abdul Qadir Tlass (Arabic: مصطفى عبد القادر طلاس, romanized: Musṭafā ʿAbd al-Qādir Ṭalās; 11 May 1932 – 27 June 2017) was a Syrian senior military officer and politician who was Syria's minister of defense from 1972 to 2004.^[1] He was part of the four-member Regional Command during the Hafez Assad era.