Abdullah al-Ahmar
{{Short description|Syrian politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Abdullah al-Ahmar
{{Nobold|{{lang|ar|عبدالله الأحمر}}}}
| image = Abdullah al-Ahmar Cropped.png
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| caption = Ahmar during an official visit to Romania in 1978|
| office = Assistant Secretary General of the National Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
| term_start = 17 November 1971
| term_end = 26 October 2018
| predecessor = Hafez al-Assad
| successor = Hilal Hilal
| 1blankname = President
| 1namedata = Hafez al-Assad
Bashar al-Assad
| office1 = Member of the Regional Command of the Syrian Regional Branch
| term_start1 = 13 November 1970
| term_end1 = 9 February 2005
| birth_date = {{nowrap|{{birth date and age|1936|6|6|df=y}}}}
| birth_place = Al-Tall, French Mandate
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| party = Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party (1954–1966)
Syria-based Ba'ath Party (Syrian branch: (1966–2024)
| otherparty = National Progressive Front: (1972–2024)
| alma_mater = University of Damascus
}}
Abdullah Al-Ahmar ({{langx|ar|عبدالله الأحمر}}; born 6 June 1936){{Cite web |date=3 September 2015 |title=Comrade Abdullah Alahmar Assistant Secretary General of the Baath Arab Socialist Party |url=http://www.baath-party.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=315&Itemid=333&lang=en |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210129175547/http://www.baath-party.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=315&Itemid=333&lang=en |archive-date=29 January 2021}} is a Syrian politician and prominent member of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party.
Biography
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Born at Al-Tall, al-Ahmar joined the Ba'ath Party in the 1950s and graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Damascus in 1964. Soon after, he was appointed as a governor of Hama (1967–1969) then Idlib (1969–1970). In 1970, the regional Ba'ath conference elected him to the Syrian Regional Command together with Hafez Al-Assad after an internal coup in the party that expelled Salah Jadid's faction from power. A few months later, Assad's faction held a meeting and appointed a new National Command that elected Assad as a general secretary and Ahmar his deputy. This National Command is competing with another one that was based in Iraq on being the sole legitimate National Command.
In 1980, Ahmar was re-elected with Assad into the same positions they held since 1971. Since the death of Assad in 2000, Ahmar is the highest ranked Ba'ath member in Syria, while Bashar Al-Assad is the general-secretary of the Syrian Regional Command.
On 25 July 2013, Abdullah al-Ahmar was the head of a Ba'ath Party delegation visiting North Korea.{{cite web|url=http://sana.sy/eng/22/2013/07/25/494220.htm|title=Democratic Korean President stresses absolute solidarity with Syria |access-date=July 25, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130726015952/http://sana.sy/eng/22/2013/07/25/494220.htm |archive-date=July 26, 2013 }}
References
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Sources
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100613035219/http://baath-party.org/leadership_detail.asp?id=3 Abdullah Al-Ahmar](in Arabic).
- {{YouTube|gEalBXp0Gi8|TV Interview}} (in Arabic)
- [https://archive.today/20130116102814/http://www.aknews.com/en/aknews/4/322480/ Second Baath party figure arrested in Syria], archive.today. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
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Category:Damascus University alumni
Category:Members of the National Command of the Ba'ath Party (Syrian-dominated faction)
Category:Members of the Regional Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region
Category:People from Rif Dimashq Governorate
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