Manaf Tlas

Manaf Tlas or Manaf Tlass (* 1964 in ar-Rastan near Homs ) is a former Syrian brigadier general .

Life

Manaf Tlas comes from a Sunni family. His father, Mustafa Tlas , was Syria's defense minister from 1972 to 2002 and Hafiz al-Assad's closest confidante . His son and later President Bashar al-Assad therefore got to know Manaf Tlas in his youth. His mother Lamia Al-Jabiri comes from the wealthy Jabiri clan based in Aleppo . Tlas has a brother, Firas, and two sisters, Sarya and Nahed , the widow of the Saudi entrepreneur Akram Ojjeh .

In 2000 Tlas was promoted to officer in the Republican Guard , the elite Syrian unit protecting the president. He later reported directly to Mahir al-Assad , the president's brother , with the rank of brigadier general .

According to Tlas, in the first months of the 2011 protests in Syria, he tried to mediate between the government and representatives of the protest movement, including in the Duma near Damascus . This is said to have happened with Assad's approval, but failed due to the violent action of some security forces. According to media reports, Tlas was placed under house arrest in May 2011 for refusing to bomb residential areas. In the summer of 2012 he managed to flee via Turkey to Paris, where his sister Nahed and his father also resided.

Private life

Tlas is married to Tala al-Kheir. Al-Kheir belongs to a wealthy Damascus family from the upper middle class. You have a son, Ahmed.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Syrian ex-general Manaf Tlass: Escape aid from the French secret service , accessed on January 22, 2016.
2. ↑ : Raniah Salloum deserted Close friend of dictator Assad. Spiegel Online, July 6, 2012, accessed July 17, 2012 .  
3. ↑ Sam Dagher: Assad or We Burn the Country . 1st edition. Litte, Brown & Company, New York 2019, p. 196-199 .
4. ↑ Assad's ex-confidante fled Syria. July 6, 2012. Retrieved July 17, 2012 . 
5. ↑ All the Tyrant's Men: Chipping Away at the Assad Regime's Core , accessed January 22, 2016.