Chalid Bakdash
Chalid Bakdasch (also Khalid Bagdash or Khaled Bekdache , Arabic خالد بكداش, DMG Ḫālid Bakdāš , * 1912 in Damascus , Ottoman Empire ; † 1995 ) was the leader of the Communist Party in Syria from 1936 until his death .
In 1954 Bakdasch was the first member of a communist party to be elected to an Arab parliament. Since then he has been called the "Dean of Arab Communism ". He was of Kurdish origin and of Sunni Muslim faith.
politics
Bakdasch became chairman of the Syrian-Lebanese Communist Party in 1936 , which he remained until it split into the Syrian and Lebanese parties in 1944. From then on he became chairman of the Syrian Communist Party and over time was subjected to various degrees of repression. In 1972, however, when President Hafiz al-Assad wanted to introduce a multiparty system, Bakdash was accepted into the National Progress Front, a coalition of parties loyal to the government under the auspices of the Ba'ath Party . In 1986 a faction split off under Yusuf Faisal , which supported the idea of perestroika in the Soviet Union , which Bakdasch himself rejected. Many intellectuals then left the party. However, the strong Kurdish base in particular stuck to Bakdasch and formed the Bakdasch faction .
swell
- Collelo, Thomas. 1988. Syria, A Country Study . ( ISBN 0-16-001690-8 )
- Washington Report on Middle Eastern Affairs
- speech before the Seventh Congress of the Comintern
Individual evidence
- ^ Federal Research Division: Syria A Country Study . Kessinger Publishing, 2004, ISBN 1-4191-5022-7 , pp. 217 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed May 12, 2011]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bakdash, Chalid |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baghdash, Chalid |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Syrian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Damascus , Ottoman Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1995 |
| Place of death | Damascus , Syria |