1. Ibrahim Hananu was a Syrian revolutionary and former Ottoman municipal official who led a revolt against the French colonial presence in northern Syria in the early 1920s.
15 Facts About Ibrahim Hananu
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Ibrahim Hananu was a member of a notable landholding family of Kurdish origin in northern Syria.
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Ibrahim Hananu studied at the Imperial High School in Aleppo, and continued his studies at the Ottoman Law Academy of the prestigious Mulkiye school in Istanbul.
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One Syrian source from the United Arab Republic era indicates that having embraced nationalism when the Arab Revolt broke out in 1916, Ibrahim Hananu joined the Arab army of Faisal I and entered Aleppo with the Allies in 1918.
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Ibrahim Hananu was responsible for the disarmament of many French troops, the destruction of railroads and telegraph lines, the sabotage of tanks, and the foiling of French attacks on Aleppo.
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On July 23,1920, when the French army successfully attacked Aleppo, Ibrahim Hananu was forced to retreat back to his village of Kafr Takharim Nahiyah and began to reorganize the revolt with Najeeb Oweid.
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Ibrahim Hananu received aid from the Turkish nationalist movement of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, which was battling the French army of the Levant for control of Cilicia and southern Anatolia.
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In 1922 Ibrahim Hananu was arrested and presented to the French military criminal court on charges of criminal acts.
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Ibrahim Hananu was put under house arrest following the trial and his movements were monitored by the French intelligence.
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However, Ibrahim Hananu was released after the Great Syrian Revolt of 1925.
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Ibrahim Hananu went on to play an active role in the Syrian national movement.
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Ibrahim Hananu was one of the founding fathers of the National Bloc which steered the course of the independence struggle in Syria until its achievement in 1946.
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Ibrahim Hananu was a member of the National Bloc's permanent council and chief of its political bureau.
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In 1928, Ibrahim Hananu held office on the Constitutional Assembly that drafted the first republican constitution for Syria.
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Ibrahim Hananu is considered to be one of the most celebrated individuals in the resistance against the French Mandate.