Khalid Bakdash
1936–1995 Syrian Communist Party leader / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Khalid Bakdash (occasionally spelled Khalid Bagdash or Khaled Bekdache, Arabic: خالد بكداش) (1912 – July 15, 1995) was a Syrian politician who was the founder of the Syrian Communist Party (SCP) and lead it from 1936 until his death in 1995. In 1954, Bakdash became the first member of a communist party to be elected to an Arab parliament. He has since been called the "dean of Arab communism".[2]
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Born | 1912 Damascus, Ottoman Syria |
Died | July 15, 1995(1995-07-15) (aged 82–83)[1] Damascus, Syria |
Occupation | Secretary-general of the Syrian Communist Party Member of the Parliament of Syria |
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