• Source: Fifth Salah al-Din al-Bitar Government

The Fifth Salah al" target="_blank">al-Din al" target="_blank">al-Bitar Government ruled Syria from January to February 1966. The Cabinet of Syria led by then-Prime Minister Salah al" target="_blank">al-Din al" target="_blank">al-Bitar. This government was the 73rd since Syria gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1918.
It was formed on January 1, 1966, and abruptly dissolved on February 23, 1966. This government was overthrown between 21 and 23 February 1966 in a coup d'état. The ruling National Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party were removed from power by a union of
a regionalists led by Salah Jadid.




Ministers


Dr. Salah al" target="_blank">al-Din al" target="_blank">al-Bitar, Prime Minister and Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Dr. Adnan Shuman, Deputy Prime Minister for Social Affairs and Labour
Rais al" target="_blank">al-Farhan al" target="_blank">al-Fayyad, Deputy Prime Minister for Peninsula and Euphrates Affairs
Muwaffaq al" target="_blank">al-Sharbaji, Minister of Finance
Fahmy al" target="_blank">al-Ashuri, Minister of Interior
Major General Muhammad Umran, Minister of Defense
Dr. Muhammad al" target="_blank">al-Fadil, Minister of Justice
Jamil Thabit, Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour
Dr. Salah Wazzan, Minister of Agriculture
Dr. Abdullah Abd al" target="_blank">al-Dayim, Minister of Education
Dr. Kamal Hosni, Minister of Economy
Shakir Mustafa, Minister of Information
Dr. Abd al" target="_blank">al-Wahhab Khayatah, Minister of Planning
Mahmud Tijar, Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs
Kamal Shahadih, Minister of Supply
Dr. Ahmed Badr al" target="_blank">al-Din, Minister of Transport
Samih Fakhury, Minister of Public Works
Jamil Haddad, Minister of Agrarian Reform
Dr. Hanin Sayyaj, Minister of Health
Hisham al" target="_blank">al-Aas, Minister of Industry
Asaad Darqawi, Minister of Culture
Mahmoud Arab Said, Minister of Awqaf
Major General Mahmud Jabir, Minister for Presidential Affairs
Bashir Qutb, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
Yusuf Khabbaz, Minister of State Governance and Tourism
Nazzal Diri, Minister of State for Peninsula and Euphrates Affairs




References






= Works cited

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Rabinovich, Itamar (1972). Syria Under the Baʻth, 1963–66: The Army Party Symbiosis. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 0-7065-1266-9.

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