Salah al-Din al-Bitar
Salah al-Din al-Bitar | |
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| صلاح الدين البيطار | |
| Prime Minister of Syria | |
| In office 1 January 1966 – 23 February 1966 | |
| President | Amin al-Hafiz |
| Preceded by | Yusuf Zuayyin |
| Succeeded by | Yusuf Zuayyin |
| In office 13 May 1964 – 3 October 1964 | |
| President | Amin al-Hafiz |
| Preceded by | Amin al-Hafiz |
| Succeeded by | Amin al-Hafiz |
| In office 9 March 1963 – 11 November 1963 | |
| President | Lu'ay al-Atassi Amin al-Hafiz |
| Preceded by | Khalid al-Azm |
| Succeeded by | Amin al-Hafiz |
| Member of the National Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party | |
| In office 6 April 1947 – 1 September 1959 | |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| In office June 1956 – 22 February 1958 | |
| President | Shukri al-Quwatli |
| Preceded by | Said al-Ghazzi |
| Succeeded by | Mahmoud Fawzi (UAR) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 January 1912 Damascus, Ottoman Syria, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 21 July 1980 (aged 68) Paris, France |
| Political party | Ba'ath Party |
| Alma mater | University of Paris |
Salah al-Din al-Bitar (Arabic: صلاح الدين البيطار, romanized: Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn al-Bīṭār; 1 January 1912 – 21 July 1980) was a Syrian politician who co-founded the Baʿath Party with Michel Aflaq in the early 1940s. As students in Paris in the early 1930s, the two formulated a doctrine that combined aspects of nationalism and socialism. Bitar later served as prime minister in several early Ba'athist governments in Syria but became alienated from the party as it grew more radical. In 1966 he fled the country, lived mostly in Europe and remained politically active until he was assassinated in Paris in 1980 by unidentified hitmen linked to the regime of Hafez al-Assad.