We are finishing our blog discussions today. Now we are going to work on our semester test blog.
SYRIA- -Turkey controlled 1516 to 1918
-France controlled from 1918 to 1946
-India controlled in 1946
-1946- 1971 government was very unstable- coup d'etat's is the overthrow of government
-since 1963 Syria has been under emergency law (where people don't have rights)
-in 1971 Al-Assade became leader (people didn't like him but he also did a lot of positive things for the country)
-Bashar Al-Assad is leader in 2000
-Arab spring of 2011- they want a new president because they had no human rights- civil war breaking out for about 2 years now- 2 cease fires failed
-December 17th 2012 called for "historic settlement"- national unity government
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