National Council for the Revolutionary Command
The National Council for the Revolutionary Command (NCRC) was the twenty-man council set up to rule Ba'athist Syria between March 1963 and February 1966. Established by the 1963 coup d'état, which was undertaken by leftist officers in the Syrian Army, it exercised both executive and legislative authority in Syria.
The NCRC was composed of 12 Ba'athists and eight Nasserists and independents. Its exact membership was kept secret for the first few months. Though some civilians were admitted, it was dominated by military officers.[1] Within the NCRC, the military officers created a committee to hold the real power described as a "Junta within a Junta."[1]
The new government's priority was to establish an Arab union with Iraq, where Ba'athists seized control in February 1963, and the United Arab Republic. Unity talks, however, failed after the Ba'athist regime in Iraq was overthrown in November 1963. In May 1964, the NCRC implemented a provisional constitution providing for a cabinet, a Presidential Council, and an appointed legislature composed of "people's organizations." The NCRC was dissolved following the 1966 coup d'état by dissident army officers.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Seale, Patrick (1990). Asad of Syria: The Struggle for the Middle East. University of California Press. pp. 78–79. ISBN 978-0-520-06976-3. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
- ^ Army, United States Dept of the (1965). Middle East: Tricontinental Hub: A Strategic Survey. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 190.
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