Chaled Khodja

Chaled Chodscha (born July 4, 1965 in Damascus ) was President of the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces from 2015 to 2017 .

Career

Chaled Chodscha is of Syrian-Turkmen descent. He studied medicine at the University of Izmir in Turkey . He was arrested twice during the Ba'ath presidency of Hafiz al-Assad . After the beginning of the Syrian Civil War , Chodscha began forming several opposition groups in 2011 and joined the Syrian National Coalition in October 2011. He became the representative of the national coalition ("Syrian Ambassador") in Turkey, which recognizes the national coalition as the legal representative of Syria.

On January 4, 2015, he was elected as successor to Hadi al-Bahra as President of the National Coalition alongside Prime Minister Ahmed Tomeh and Secretary General Nasser el-Hariri . In the election of May 6, 2017, he could no longer win a majority and had to hand over the presidency to the challenger Riad Seif .

Web links

Report from al-Jazeera

Individual evidence

^ Profiles: Khaled Khoja, Syria opposition chief. In: BBC News. BBC, accessed April 24, 2015 .
^ National Syrian coalition elects Riad Seif as its new boss. In: ZEIT Online. May 6, 2017. Retrieved December 6, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Khodja, Chaled
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Syrian politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	4th July 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH	Damascus , Syria

[1] Profiles: Khaled Khoja, Syria opposition chief. In: BBC News. BBC, accessed April 24, 2015 .

[2] National Syrian coalition elects Riad Seif as its new boss. In: ZEIT Online. May 6, 2017. Retrieved December 6, 2017 .