Nureddin al-Atassi

Nureddin al-Atassi نور الدين الأتاسي
Secretary General of the National Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
In office March 1966 – 17 November 1970
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
In office March 1966 – 13 November 1970
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
In office March 1966 – 17 November 1970
In office 5 September 1963 – 19 December 1965
President of Syria
In office 25 February 1966 – 17 October 1970
Preceded by	Amin al-Hafiz
Succeeded by	Ahmad al-Khatib
Prime Minister of Syria
In office 29 October 1968 – 17 October 1970
Preceded by	Yusuf Zu'ayyin
Succeeded by	Hafez al-Assad
Personal details
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.

Early life and education

Atassi was born in Homs in 1929 To The Famous Al Attasi Family.

Career

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.

Arrest and death

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.