During the 1960s, Hafez al-Assad rose to prominence in the Syrian government through the 1963 coup d'état, backed by the Ba'ath party.
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In an interview which aired Russia Today TV on 8 June 2009 (as translated by MEMRI), Tlass claimed that actress Gina Lollobrigida had once told him that he was the "one love in my life."
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | Mustafa Sandal | Mustafa Güngör | Mustafa Barghouti | Mustafa Pasha | Mustafa Altıoklar | Mustafa II | Mustafa Ben Halim | Mustafa Abdul Jalil | Abu Mustafa al-Sheibani | Nawshirwan Mustafa | Mustafa Manwar | Mustafa III | Mustafa Hamsho | Lala Mustafa Pasha's Caucasian campaign | Lala Mustafa Pasha | Isaiah Mustafa | Eddie Mustafa Muhammad | Ukrayinska Pravda's chief investigative journalists, Serhiy Leshchenko (center) and Mustafa Nayem | Syed Mustafa Kamal | Şehzade Mustafa | Seema Mustafa | Sam A. Mustafa | Mustafa Tlass | Mustafa Setmariam Nasar | Mustafa Şekip Birgöl | Mustafa Osman Ismail | Mustafa Mahmud | Mustafa Kemal's visit to Çay | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's |
On 19 October 1999, after meeting with Syrian Defence Minister Mustafa Tlass in Damascus, Syria,to discuss expanding military ties between China and Syria, Chi then flew directly to Israel and met with Ehud Barak, the then prime minister and Defence Minister of Israel where they discussed military relations.