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Assef Shawkat

1950 - 2012

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Assef Shawkat (Arabic: آصِفُ شَوْكَتْ, romanized: ʾĀṣif Šawkat‎; 15 January 1950 – 18 July 2012) was a Syrian military officer who was the Deputy Minister of Defense of Syria from September 2011 until his death in July 2012. He was the brother-in-law of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, having married his older sister Bushra. He and three other top Syrian government officials were killed on 18 July 2012 in Damascus during a deadly bomb attack allegedly organized by the Assad regime . Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Assef Shawkat has received more than 324,001 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Assef Shawkat is the 11,504th most popular politician (down from 10,159th in 2019), the 125th most popular biography from Syria (down from 109th in 2019) and the 60th most popular Syrian Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Assef Shawkat ranks 11,504 out of 15,577. Before him are Misael Pastrana Borrero, Wasfi Tal, Ghiyas-ud-din Baraq, Stefano Domenicali, Philip II, Margrave of Baden-Baden, and Ida of Bernicia. After him are Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau, Leontia, Walter Thurnherr, Judith of Brittany, Balaji Vishwanath, and Manuel Estrada Cabrera.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Assef Shawkat ranks 216. Before him are Nelsinho Baptista, Martine Aubry, Josiane Balasko, Roland Matthes, Dee Dee Bridgewater, and Helen Clark. After him are Phillip Noyce, Bill Irwin, Philippe Barbarin, Megumi Torigoe, Lino Červar, and Andrzej Bartkowiak. Among people deceased in 2012, Assef Shawkat ranks 193. Before him are Pierre Mondy, Claude Miller, Pierre Schoendoerffer, Txillardegi, Dom Mintoff, and Kurt Adolff. After him are Simeon ten Holt, Marvin Hamlisch, Sergey Kapitsa, Fang Lizhi, Donald "Duck" Dunn, and Pierre Sinibaldi.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Assef Shawkat ranks 125 out of 181. Before him are Dawoud Rajiha (1947), Muhammad Zaidan (1948), Elia Abu Madi (1890), Hilarion Capucci (1922), Nazim al-Qudsi (1906), and Seleucus VII Philometor (-100). After him are Ghada al-Samman (1942), Maher al-Assad (1967), Philipp Stamma (1705), Ignatius IV of Antioch (1920), Muhammad Naji al-Otari (1944), and Khalid Bakdash (1912).

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Among POLITICIANS In Syria

Among politicians born in Syria, Assef Shawkat ranks 60. Before him are Walid Muallem (1941), Antiochus Hierax (-266), Hussein Arnous (1953), Dawoud Rajiha (1947), Nazim al-Qudsi (1906), and Seleucus VII Philometor (-100). After him are Muhammad Naji al-Otari (1944), Khalid Bakdash (1912), Émile Eddé (1883), Lu'ay al-Atassi (1926), Najah al-Attar (1933), and Akram al-Hawrani (1912).

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