Subhi Bey Barakat Explained

Subhi Bey Barakat al-Khalidi
Native Name:صبحي بك بركات الخالدي
Native Name Lang:ar
Order:1st President of the Syrian Federation and the State of Syria under the French Mandate
Birthname:Suphi Bereket[1]
Term Start:29[2] June 1922
Term End:21 December 1925
Predecessor:Faisal I (As King of Syria)
Successor:François Pierre-Alype
Order1:4th Prime Minister of Syria
Term Start1:26 January 1925
Term End1:21 December 1925
Predecessor1:Jamil al-Ulshi
Successor1:Ahmad Nami
Birth Date:1889
Birth Place:Antakya, Ottoman Empire
Death Place:Antakya, Turkey
Party:Independent

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

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.[8]

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, and he quit the presidency of Syria in 1925 in protest to the French position regarding the fate of the Alawite and Druze States, which France refused to add to Syria because it feared that might endanger the independence of the newly created Lebanon.

Personal life

Barakat was married to Halide; They had three sons (named Rıfat, Halit, and Selahattin) and three daughters (Süheyla Mukbile, Zehra, and Saniye). Süheyla Mukbile married Refik Koraltan's son Oğuzhan Koraltan. Zehra married Turkish diplomat Vahit Melih Halefoğlu. Saniye married to businessman Fazıl Tüzemen.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cıvaoğlu. Güneri. 2016. Aile ağacında DNA. Milliyet. 18 December 2016.
  2. Bulletin Hebdomadaire des Actes Administratifs du Haut-Commissariat . 8 October 1922 . 268 .
    Correspondance d'Orient . 15 August 1922 . Fédération des États de Syrie: Discours du General Gouraud . 459 .
  3. Book: Moubayed, Sami M. . Steel & silk: men and women who shaped Syria 1900-2000. Cune Press. 2006. Bridge between the cultures series. 200–202. 978-1-885942-40-1. February 21, 2012.
  4. Book: Rapport à la Société des Nations sur la situation de la Syrie et du Liban . France. Ministère des affaires étrangères . 1926 . 9.
  5. Book: Hatay Devleti Millet Meclisi Zabıtları . Atatürk Araştırma Merkezi . 2009 . 9789751622211 . Ankara . 12–13 . tr . TEKİN . Mehmet.
  6. Book: Hatay Devleti Millet Meclisi Zabıtları . Atatürk Araştırma Merkezi . 2009 . 9789751622211 . Ankara . 46 . tr . TEKİN . Mehmet.
  7. Book: Khoury, Philip. Syria and the French Mandate: the Politics of Arab Nationalism, 1920-1945. Princeton University Press. 1987. Princeton, N.J.. 127.