ATA Al-Ayoubi

“ ATA” Bay Al-Ayoubi (1877 - 1951) (Arab: عطاالأيوبي) was an Othoman civil servant.

Ayoubi was born with Damas, in a politically engaged family. It made its studies with Istanbul, it is over there that it studied the public administration before beginning its professional path as civil servant. In 1908, it is named governor of Lattaquié, a city on the Syrian coast. During the Arab Revolt of 1916 - 1918 against the Othoman capacity, it took party for none of the two camps. Nevertheless, when the Ottoman Empire was demolishes in 1918, it is turned over to live in Damas. During the four days which occurred, between the departure of the army Turkish, and the arrival of the Arab armies, it created a provisional government with a group of notable Syrian, of which amongst other things emir Said Al-Jazairi, his beautiful brother and small son of the emir AbdelKader, who also lived in Damas.

In July 1920, under the reign of the king Fayçal, the Prime Minister, Ala' eddin Droubi appoints it Minister of Interior Department. After the installation of the French Mandate in Syria, Ayoubi keeps its post of minister of the interior. Nevertheless, it tied contacts with nationalist chiefs, it has establishes a smuggling of weapons and money with Saleh Al-ALI, leader of the Syrian revolt on the west coast and Ibrahim Hananu leader of the " Revolt Alep ". For Lattaquié it was used of its post of Prime Minister, to help the Syriens insurrectionists not to be made stop by the police force, and it gave them many information on the French garrisons to carry out guets-apens. He was minister at the time of the battle of Maysaloun carried out by the Minister for the war, and the Head of State major, Youssef Al-Azmeh. In August 1920, a group of man tried to assassinate it, they showed it treason to have accepted the French mandate in Syria. But it kept its station, becoming in 1922 Minister for justice in the government pro-French of Subhi Barakat, it kept its station until in 1925, date of large the Syrian rising against French.

In 1928, it is combined with the national Bloc, the political principal party against the French presence in Syria, but he was not member of the party. In March 1934, the Prime Minister Aldine Taj Al-Hasani appoints it Minister for justice. The relations between the national Block and the French authorities are degraded abruptly in 1936, the leaders of the Block invite the Syrians to strike. The strike lasted during more than sixty days, whereas French did not hesitate to stop and beat the strikers. The international community was made indignant at the attitude of France during this conflict. But the French authorities, fearing that the strike is exported in North Africa, decides to negotiate independence with the leaders of the Block.

During the negotiations, the government pro-French of Aldine Taj Al-Hasani is dissolved and the French high commissioner, the account Henri de Martel asks Ayoubi to form a new government. It forms a coalition government, which gather political personalities pro-Frenchwomen, and other freedom fighters, members of the Block. At the end of the negotiations between the Block and the French authorities, Ayoubi resigns of its station. With the nationalist chief, national Block, Hachem Al-Atassi chair, it decides installation of new strike a sixty days and it announces the signature of an agreement with France which would guarantee the independence of Syria during at least 25 years. The Syrians accepted this agreement, but not French which feared to lose an important colony in the Arab Monde, if a second world war burst.

For the transitional period, it appointed Foreign Minister, of defense and the interior. Following the election of Shukri Al-Kuwatli at the position of president of the republic, it leaves the political life.

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