Abd al-Karim al-Nahlawi ( ar, عبد الكريم النحلاوي) (born 1926) is a
Syria
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n former
military officer
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and head of the
coup which ended the union of Syria and
Egypt
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as the
United Arab Republic
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on 28 September 1961. Al-Nahlawi seized personal power in a
second coup the following year, briefly ruling Syria (28 March - 2 April) before falling victim to another coup himself. After occupying several diplomatic posts, in
Indonesia
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,
Pakistan
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,
Morocco
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and
Turkey
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, he returned to Syria and attempted to seize power once again in a final and unsuccessful military coup attempt.
Al-Nahlawi was a
lieutenant colonel
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in the combined Syrian-Egyptian army when he headed a coalition of moderate officers from
Damascus
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who carried out a bloodless coup against Nasser and (more directly) his deputy 'Abd al-Hakim Amer, who was the Egyptian viceroy in Syria.
[Choueiri, Youssef M., Arab nationalism: a history : nation and state in the Arab world, Wiley, 2000, p. 200] The Syrian officers were to some degree operating at the behest of the Syrian middle and upper class who opposed Nasser's socialist policies and in particular
land reform
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.
References
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1926 births
Possibly living people
Leaders who took power by coup
People from Damascus
Syrian colonels
Syrian expatriates in Pakistan