Who is Bashar al-Assad

Born September 11, 1965 Bashar Assad is the president of the Republic of Syria. He is the son of the Baath Party and the former president of Hafiz Asad.

When Hafez Asad died, Abdülhalim Haddam sat for a very short time in his vacant presidential seat.

Esad graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Şam University in 1988. He continued to work in the field of "eye diseases" and went to England in 1992. In 1994, his brother died in a traffic accident and returned to Syria. His father was trained to be Hafez Assad's successor.

Assad entering the Syrian army; on 11 June 2006, by the interim President Abdulhalim Haddam, who replaced his father's death.

Bashar al-Assad, who handled Lebanon's file in 1995 when Syrian-Lebanese relations became strained, tried to make Emil Lahud be Lebanese president in 1998.

After his father's death, Parliament became the President of Syria after meeting the 40-year-old age requirement for the presidency with the age limit of 34 years.

Since taking up the presidency on the Syrian-Israeli relations, Israel and the United States at international conferences.

After the events of September 11, the US-Syrian relations became tense, and the US accused Syria of "supporting terrorism". Relations between the two countries came after the murder of Lebanese President Rafik Hariri. With the UN Security Council resolution 1559, the Syrian troops left Lebanon.