Bashir al-Azma
Bashir al-Azma بشير العظَمة | |
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Maaruf al-Dawalibi | |
| Succeeded by | Khalid al-Azm |
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| Born | 1910 Damascus, Syria |
| Died | 1992 (aged 82) Damascus, Syria |
Bashir al-Azma (1910–1992) (
from 16 April to 14 September 1962.He was born in and raised in the capital Damascus. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Medicine from Damascus University and his graduate in Paris. He became the Minister of Health under the United Arab Republic (UAR) but resigned due to a conflict with Gamal Abdel Nasser. Later, he became the Prime Minister of Syria after the dissolution of the UAR.
Bashir al-Azma was one of several Syrian Prime Ministers who intended to keep Syria out of the east–west conflict and demonstrate its passive approach to it. On 22 April 1962, al-Azma declared on Radio Damascus that
Personal life
Bashir al-Azma was from the distinguished al-Azma family, who were of Turkish origin.[2]
Notes and references
- ^ Shalom, Zakai. Israel's Nuclear Option. Sussex, Sussex Academic Press. 2005.
- ISBN 9004077928,
Yusuf Bey al-Azma, from a Turkoman family of merchants and landowners... His nephew Nabih Bey had a similar career and several other 'Azmas were Ottoman officers.
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