Jamal al-Atassi
Jamal al-Atassi , sometimes also Jemal el-Atassi ( Arabic جمال الأتاسي Jamal al-Atasi , * April 1922 in Homs , Syria ; † March 30, 2000 in Damascus , Syria) was a Syrian politician.
Baathist
Al-Atassi studied at Damascus University and received his doctorate in psychology in 1947. Immediately afterwards he joined the Baath party, which was founded in the same year, and as editor-in-chief of the party newspaper initially became its chief ideologist. He was considered an avid supporter of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and the Egyptian-Syrian Union 1958–1961 or the attempt to reissue the union from 1963 . Under the Ba'ath founder and Prime Minister Salah ad-Din al-Bitar , al-Atassi became minister of information in March 1963, but resigned in May 1963 after the failure of the Baathist-Nassist alliance.
Nasserist
Instead, al-Atassi founded a Syrian branch of the Nassist Arab Socialist Union (ASU) in 1964 , while his cousin Noureddine al-Atassi became president as a result of an intra-Baathist coup against Bitar in 1966. Jamal al-Atassi supported another intra-Baathist coup against his cousin in 1970, as a result of which Hafiz al-Assad became president. In 1972 Assad initially formed a coalition with al-Atassi's Nasserists, other ex-Baathists and the Syrian Communist Party in the form of the National Progressive Front (NPF), but in 1973 al-Atassi left the NPF again.
While part of the ASU remained in the NPF under the original name and leadership of Fawzi Kiyali (since 1984 Safwan al-Qudsi), al-Atassi and his supporters founded the Democratic Arab Socialist Union and with other opposition parties in 1980 (including Ibrahim Makhous 'Democratic Arab Socialist Baath Party) the National Democratic Movement as a counterpart to the NPF. Nevertheless, he was officially honored as a patriot at his funeral. On the occasion of al- Atassi's death, a new democracy movement (Atassi Forum) emerged in 2000 under the leadership of his daughter Souheïr Atassi and Nureddin's son Ali al-Atassi , which was banned in 2001.
See also
literature
- Itamar Rabinovich : Syria under the Baʻth, 1963-66, the Army Party symbiosis , page 41ff . Tel Aviv 1972
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Atassi, Jamal al- |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Atassi, Jamal al- |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Syrian statesman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Homs |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 2000 |
| Place of death | Damascus |