Azme, Bashir

Personal life

Bashir al-Azmeh was born in Damascus in a famous family in 1910. He studied medicine at the University of Damascus , received a diploma in 1934. He then graduated from a residency in Paris , specializing in breast diseases. Upon completion of his residency, he returned to Damascus , where he took a professorship at the university . Al-Azmeh is the author of a number of articles and manuals in various fields of medicine. He founded and for a long time headed the Arab Medical Journal. He was married to Rome Kurd-Ali ( Arabic. ريمة كردعلي ) ^[1] .

Political career

After the creation of the UAR , the united state of Egypt and Syria , al-Azmeh was appointed Minister of Health of the UAR . At this time, he also served as chairman of the Syrian Physicians Union. After Syria left the UAR in September 1961, al-Azme returned to his medical practice in Damascus . In October of the same year, he joined the group of politicians who drafted a “declaration on Syria’s withdrawal from the UAR,” in which Gamal Abdel Nasser , then president of Egypt , was accused of abandoning the ideas of Arab nationalism and stifling Syria’s democracy and political life. On March 16, 1962, after a protracted political crisis, President Nazim al-Qudsi proposed al-Azma to head the cabinet. The de facto officers in power accepted his candidacy due to his professionalism. Al-Azme’s main goals at this post were to curb the ambitions of the officers who had exited Syria from the UAR and eradicated the remnants of Nasser’s influence in Syria . To do this, he carried out the mass dismissal of Nasser’s proteges in the state apparatus, and also filed a formal complaint to the League of Arab States , accusing Nasser of meddling in the country's internal affairs, and then announced the abolition of the 1958 constitution and the restoration of the 1950 constitution. Against his course, the socialists sharply opposed their positions on pro-Pacer. On September 17, 1962, al-Azmeh resigned from his post as prime minister, but remained in the government (he was deputy new prime minister Khaled al-Azem ). After the Arab nationalist party Ba'ath Bashir al-Azmeh came to power in 1963, along with other politicians who opposed the alliance with Nasser , he was forced to leave politics. In 1991, he released a memoir entitled "The Generation of the Defeat between Union and Schism" (جيل الهزيمة بين الوحدة والانفصال - Gil-ul-hazima beina-l-wahda wa-l-infisal ). Al-Azmeh died in 1992 ^[2] .

• List of Prime Ministers of Syria
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• Bashir al-Azme at syrianhistory.com