Salah al-Din al-Bitar
Prime minister
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. In 1966 he fled the country, lived mostly in Europe and remained politically active until he was assassinated in 1980.
Personal facts
| Birth date | January 01, 1912 |
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| Date of death | July 21, 1980 |
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