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Shukri al-Quwatli (Arabic: شكري القوّتلي, romanized: Shukrī al-Quwwatlī; 6 May 1891 – 30 June 1967) was the first president of post-independence Syria, in 1943. He began his career as a dissident working towards the independence and unity of the Ottoman Empire 's Arab territories and was consequently imprisoned and tortured for ...
Juni 1967 in Beirut, Libanon) war ein syrischer Politiker und Staatspräsident der Syrischen Republik von 1943 bis 1949 sowie von 1955 bis 1958. Leben. Schukri al-Quwatli erhielt in Konstantinopel eine Hochschulausbildung zum Staatsbeamten.
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Shukri al-Quwatli (born 1891, Damascus [Syria]—died June 30, 1967, Beirut, Leb.) was a statesman who led the anticolonialist movement in Syria and became the nation’s first president. Quwatli entered Syrian politics in the 1930s as a member of the National Bloc, an Arab group that led the opposition to French rule.
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Bernard Paget. Shukri al-Quwatli. Charles de Gaulle. Fernand Olive. The Levant Crisis, also known as the Damascus Crisis, the Syrian Crisis, or the Levant Confrontation, was a military confrontation that took place between British and French forces in Syria in May 1945 soon after the end of World War II in Europe.
- 19 May-19 July 1945
- French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon
Islam. Shukri al-Quwatli (1891 – Juin 30, 1967) ( Arabic: شكري القوتلي ) wis the preses o Sirie frae 1943 tae 1949 an frae 1955 tae 1958. Poleetical life [ eedit | eedit soorce] He wis born in Damascus intae a Turkis faimily, oreeginally frae Konya . Quwatli entered Syria politics in the 1930s as a member of the National Block ...
The president, Shukri al-Quwatli, was accused of purchasing inferior arms for the Syrian Army and poor leadership. He was briefly imprisoned, but then released into exile in Egypt . Syria's legislature, then called the House of Representatives , was dissolved. al-Za'im also imprisoned many political leaders, such as Munir al-Ajlani , whom he ...
The tensions began on August 18, [1] when the Syrian government presided by Shukri al-Quwatli made a series of institutional changes, such as the appointment of Col. Afif al-Bizri as chief-of-staff of the Syrian Army, who was alleged by Western governments to be a Soviet sympathizer.
