Khalid Bakdash

Khalid Bakdash
Personal details
Born1912
Damascus, Syria, Ottoman Empire
DiedJuly 15, 1995(1995-07-15) (aged 82–83)
Damascus, Syria
OccupationSecretary-general of the Syrian Communist Party
Member of the Parliament of Syria
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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 led 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".

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