Subhi Bey Barakat al-Khalidi or Suphi Bereket was a Turkish politician from Antakya. During the French Mandate of Syria, he was the president of the Syrian Federation from 29 June 1922 to 1 January 1925; and of the State of Syria from 1 January 1925 to 21 December 1925. Also, between 1938 and 1939, he served as the Antakya deputy of the Republic of Hatay and was elected to the Internal Affairs Committee.
Subhi Bey Barakat
Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon
The Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon was a League of Nations mandate founded in the aftermath of the First World War and the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire, concerning Syria and Lebanon. The mandate system was supposed to differ from colonialism, with the governing country intended to act as a trustee until the inhabitants were considered eligible for self-government. At that point, the mandate would terminate and a sovereign state would be born.
Front cover of the Mandate document, 1922
The Syrian National Congress in 1919
General Gourard proclaims the creation of the State of Greater Lebanon
A 10-piastre Syrian stamp used in the Alawite State, bearing an overprint overprinted "ALAOUITES"