Ahmad Toukan
Ahmad Tuqan | |
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Official portrait from 1960 | |
| Prime Minister of Jordan | |
| In office 26 September 1970 – 28 October 1970 | |
| Monarch | King Hussein |
| Preceded by | Mohammad Daoud Al-Abbasi |
| Succeeded by | Wasfi al-Tal |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 15 August 1903 Nablus, Beirut vilayet, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 5 January 1981 (aged 77) Amman, Jordan |
| Political party | Independent |
Ahmad Toukan (Arabic: أحمد طوقان, romanized: Aḥmad Ṭūqān; 15 August 1903 – 5 January 1981) was a Jordanian political leader of Palestinian descent. He was briefly the 20th Prime Minister of Jordan from 26 September 1970 to 28 October 1970, during a crackdown that drove the PLO guerillas out of Jordan.