Nureddin al-Atassi
| Nureddin al-Atassi نور الدين الأتاسي |
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| Secretary General of the National Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party | |
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In office March 1966 – 17 November 1970 |
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| Preceded by |
Munif al-Razzaz (head of unitary Ba'ath Party) |
| Succeeded by | Hafez al-Assad |
| Regional Secretary of the Regional Command of the Syrian Regional Branch | |
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In office March 1966 – 13 November 1970 |
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| Deputy | Salah Jadid |
| Preceded by |
Amin al-Hafiz (Last Regional Command dissolved in December 1965) |
| Succeeded by | Hafez al-Assad |
| Member of the Regional Command of the Syrian Regional Branch | |
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In office March 1966 – 17 November 1970 |
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In office 5 September 1963 – 19 December 1965 |
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| President of Syria | |
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In office 25 February 1966 – 17 October 1970 |
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| Preceded by | Amin al-Hafiz |
| Succeeded by | Ahmad al-Khatib |
| Prime Minister of Syria | |
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In office 29 October 1968 – 17 October 1970 |
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| Preceded by | Yusuf Zuayyin |
| Succeeded by | Hafez al-Assad |
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| Born | 1929 Homs, Syria |
| Died | 3 December 1992 (aged 63) Paris, France |
| Political party | Ba'ath Party |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Noureddin Mustafa Ali al-Atassi (1929 – 3 December 1992) (Arabic: نور الدين بن محمد علي الأتاسي Nūr ad-Dīn Muṣṭafā al-'Atasī) was President of Syria from February 1966 to November 1970.
Atassi was born in Homs in 1929 to the famous Al Atassi family.
Atassi was a medical doctor by training, and in that capacity aided the Algerian forces against the French in the Algerian War of Independence. Though a long-time ideologue of the powerful Baath Party Atassi became its General Secretary as well as President of the Republic in 1966. He was considered to be largely a ceremonial figurehead, with real power vested in the Deputy General Secretary, Salah Jadid. In 1970, he was deposed along with Salah Jadid in a coup by Hafez al-Assad, his defense minister.
Atassi was put under house arrest without trial. Then he was transferred to the Mezze military prison in Damascus where he lived from 1970 to 1992. After 22-year imprisonment, he was released and flown to Paris to receive medical treatment in France on 22 November 1992, and died at a hospital in December 1992.
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