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Assef Shawkat

1950 - 2012

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Assef Shawkat (Arabic: آصف شوكت, romanized: ʾĀṣif Šawkat‎; 15 January 1950 – 18 July 2012) was a Syrian military officer and intelligence chief who was the Deputy Minister of Defense of Syria from September 2011 until his death in July 2012. He was the brother-in-law of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, having married his older sister Bushra. He and three other top Syrian government officials were killed on 18 July 2012 in Damascus during a deadly bomb attack allegedly organized by the Free Syrian Army, a coalition of Syrian opposition rebel groups. Shawkat was a key suspect in a terrorist attack in Beirut that killed Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri on 14 February 2005. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Assef Shawkat is the 5,567th most popular politician (up from 10,688th in 2019), the 83rd most popular biography from Syria (up from 118th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Syrian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Assef Shawkat ranks 5,567 out of 19,576. Before him are William Neville, 1st Earl of Kent, Franz Ritter von Epp, Bayan I, Josef Bühler, Prusias I of Bithynia, and Jón Sigurðsson. After him are Yoshirō Mori, Batbayan, Sikandar Lodi, Ulf Kristersson, Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier, and Gedik Ahmed Pasha.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Assef Shawkat ranks 85. Before him are Nora Roberts, Robert B. Laughlin, Ken Robinson, Karen Carpenter, Paul Watson, and David Graf. After him are Yumi Umeoka, Kurt Koch, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Marcheline Bertrand, Steve McCurry, and Hugh McDonald. Among people deceased in 2012, Assef Shawkat ranks 84. Before him are Helmut Haller, Hans Werner Henze, Harry Harrison, Chris Marker, Sergey Sokolov, and Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud. After him are Haji Mohammad Chamkani, Herbert Lom, Paul L. Smith, Gore Vidal, Alexander Arutiunian, and Miguel de la Madrid.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Assef Shawkat ranks 83 out of 210. Before him are Ibn al-Shatir (1304), Abu Tammam (788), Tuman bay II (1474), Hazael (-900), Cassius Longinus (213), and Youssef Absi (1946). After him are Dündar Ali Osman (1930), Hashim al-Atassi (1875), Nazim al-Qudsi (1906), Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf (1526), Zaki al-Arsuzi (1899), and Seleucus VII Philometor (-100).

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Among POLITICIANS In Syria

Among politicians born in Syria, Assef Shawkat ranks 43. Before him are Fakhr al-Mulk Radwan (1080), Julia Maesa (165), Ibrahim ibn al-Walid (700), Adib Shishakli (1909), Tuman bay II (1474), and Hazael (-900). After him are Hashim al-Atassi (1875), Nazim al-Qudsi (1906), Seleucus VII Philometor (-100), Najah al-Attar (1933), Lu'ay al-Atassi (1926), and As-Salih Ismail al-Malik (1163).

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