On July 23, 1920, when the French army successfully attacked Aleppo, Hananu was forced to retreat back to his village of and began to reorganize the revolt with | Later years [ ] Hananu was put under house arrest following the trial and his movements were monitored by the French intelligence |
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He received aid from the Turkish nationalist movement of , which was battling the French army of the for control of and southern | "The Syrian Political Elite, 1966-1976: A Spatial and Social Analysis" |
Awad Halabi, Liminal Loyalties: Ottomanism and Palestinian Responses to the Turkish War of Independence, 1919-22.
6In the 1930s, he affirmed his reputation as a hard-liner, refusing to negotiate with the French until they pledged complete unconditional independence for Syria | Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press |
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Hananu went on to play an active role in the Syrian national movement | Despite the failure of the revolt, the organization of the northern areas of Syria with Turkish help has been interpreted as a prototype for self-government that Hananu and other Syrians built upon in later years |
As a student, he joined the , the political organ that later took stage following the of 1908.
He was a member of the National Bloc's permanent council and chief of its political bureau | However, Hananu was released after the of 1925 |
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Supposedly, he also joined the secret nationalist society , though there is no corroborating evidence for this | The rebels decided to form a based in , and sent Hananu to Turkey as a representative of the new civilian government to request for aid in fighting against the French |
There is dispute on his birth date: one source mentions he was born in 1879, while another mentions he was born in 1869.
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