Subhi Bey Barakat

Subhi Bey Barakat al-Khalidi
صبحي بك بركات الخالدي
1st President of the Syrian Federation and the State of Syria under the French Mandate
In office
29[1] June 1922 – 21 December 1925
Preceded byFaisal I (As King of Syria)
Succeeded byFrançois Pierre-Alype
4th Prime Minister of Syria
In office
26 January 1925 – 21 December 1925
Preceded byJamil al-Ulshi
Succeeded byAhmad Nami
Personal details
Born
Suphi Bereket[2]

1889
Antakya, Ottoman Empire
Died1939 (aged 49–50)
Antakya, Turkey
Political partyIndependent

Subhi Bey Barakat al-Khalidi or Suphi Bereket (Arabic: صبحي بك بركات الخالدي; Turkish: Suphi Bereket; 1889–1939) was a Turkish[3] politician from Antakya.[4] During the French Mandate of Syria, he was the president of the Syrian Federation from 29[1] June 1922 (the day following its creation) to 1 January 1925;[5][6] and of the State of Syria from 1 January 1925 to 21 December 1925.[4] Also, between 1938 and 1939, he served as the Antakya deputy of the Republic of Hatay[7] and was elected to the Internal Affairs Committee.[8]

Part of the reason the French supported his candidacy as president of the Syrian Federation was because as neither a native of Damascus nor a very strong Arabic speaker (Turkish was his mother tongue), he did not seem to pose a nationalist threat to French rule.[9]

Initially, he was a partner of Ibrahim Hanano in his revolt. He played a major role in merging the States of Aleppo and Damascus into one state,[citation needed] and he quit the presidency of Syria in 1925 in protest to the French position regarding the fate of the Alawite and Druze States,[citation needed] which France refused to add to Syria because it feared that might endanger the independence of the newly created Lebanon.

  1. ^ a b Bulletin Hebdomadaire des Actes Administratifs du Haut-Commissariat (Report). 8 October 1922. p. 268.; "Fédération des États de Syrie: Discours du General Gouraud". Correspondance d'Orient: 459. 15 August 1922.
  2. ^ Cıvaoğlu, Güneri (2016). "Aile ağacında DNA". Milliyet. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  3. ^ Bidwell, Robin (1998), "Barakat, Subhi (c.1886-)", Dictionary Of Modern Arab History, Routledge, p. 68, ISBN 1136162917, BARAKAT, Subhi (c. 1886-) Syrian Head of State. He was born into a Turkish family in Antioch and was educated in the local secondary school.
  4. ^ a b Moubayed, Sami M. (2006). Steel & silk: men and women who shaped Syria 1900-2000. Bridge between the cultures series. Cune Press. pp. 200–202. ISBN 978-1-885942-40-1. Retrieved February 21, 2012.
  5. ^ * Malsagne, Stéphane. Fouad Chéhab, 1902-1973. p. 62.
  6. ^ France. Ministère des affaires étrangères (1926). Rapport à la Société des Nations sur la situation de la Syrie et du Liban. p. 9.
  7. ^ TEKİN, Mehmet, ed. (2009). Hatay Devleti Millet Meclisi Zabıtları (in Turkish). Ankara: Atatürk Araştırma Merkezi. pp. 12–13. ISBN 9789751622211.
  8. ^ TEKİN, Mehmet, ed. (2009). Hatay Devleti Millet Meclisi Zabıtları (in Turkish). Ankara: Atatürk Araştırma Merkezi. p. 46. ISBN 9789751622211.
  9. ^ Khoury, Philip (1987). Syria and the French Mandate: the Politics of Arab Nationalism, 1920-1945. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. p. 127.