Salah ad-Din al-Bitar (Arabic: صلاح الدين البيطار) (1912 – 21 July 1980) was a Syrian politician who co-founded the Arab Ba’ath 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.
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active years end date
1959-09-01, 1963-11-11, 1964-10-03, 1966-02-23
active years start date
1947-04-06, 1963-03-09, 1964-05-13, 1966-01-01
birth date
1912-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
birth place
Damascus, Syria
death date
1980-07-21
office
Prime Minister of Syria
order in office
Member of the National Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
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