sadat

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Turkish - Turkish
(Osmanlı Dönemi) (Seyyid. C.) Seyyidler. Hazret-i Peygamber Aleyhissalâtü Vesselâm'ın soyundan gelenler ve onun izinden gidenler. Hususen Hazret-i Hasan neslinden gelenlere seyyid; Hazret-i Hüseyin neslinden gelenlere de Şerif denmektedir
English - English
Egyptian statesman who (as president of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin (then prime minister of Israel) (1918-1981)

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Anwar al- Sadat
the President of Egypt from 1970 to 1981, who tried to bring peace between the Arabs and Israelis. He shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Menachem Begin in 1978 and they signed the Camp David agreement in the following year. He was assassinated in 1981 (1918-81)
Anwar al-Sadat
{i} (1918-1981) Egyptian statesman, Prime Minister of Egypt (1970-1981), joint winner of the Nobel Peace Prize with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1978 for the Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt
Anwar el- Sadat
born Dec. 25, 1918, Mit Ab al-Kum, Egypt died Oct. 6, 1981, Cairo President of Egypt (1970-81). A graduate of the Cairo Military Academy, he joined Gamal Abdel Nasser's coup that deposed the monarchy in 1950 and later served as vice president (1964-66, 1969-70). He became president when Nasser died in 1970. He led Egypt during the Yom Kippur War (1973) against Israel. A military loss, the war was a political success for Sdt, bolstering his popularity through the Arab world. At home, he reversed many of Nasser's socialist policies and attempted to garner the support of the country's Islamists. In 1977 he went to Jerusalem to offer peace to Israel, and in 1979 he concluded a peace treaty, the Camp David Accords, with Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin. The two men shared the 1978 Nobel Prize for Peace. His popularity in the Arab world plummeted, and domestic support for his treaty with the Jewish state especially among Islamists evaporated. He was killed by a group of Muslim extremists led by Khlid al-Islmbl and associated with the Islamic Jihad Group. See also Arab-Israeli Wars; Hosn Mubrak
Muhammad Anwar el- Sadat
born Dec. 25, 1918, Mit Ab al-Kum, Egypt died Oct. 6, 1981, Cairo President of Egypt (1970-81). A graduate of the Cairo Military Academy, he joined Gamal Abdel Nasser's coup that deposed the monarchy in 1950 and later served as vice president (1964-66, 1969-70). He became president when Nasser died in 1970. He led Egypt during the Yom Kippur War (1973) against Israel. A military loss, the war was a political success for Sdt, bolstering his popularity through the Arab world. At home, he reversed many of Nasser's socialist policies and attempted to garner the support of the country's Islamists. In 1977 he went to Jerusalem to offer peace to Israel, and in 1979 he concluded a peace treaty, the Camp David Accords, with Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin. The two men shared the 1978 Nobel Prize for Peace. His popularity in the Arab world plummeted, and domestic support for his treaty with the Jewish state especially among Islamists evaporated. He was killed by a group of Muslim extremists led by Khlid al-Islmbl and associated with the Islamic Jihad Group. See also Arab-Israeli Wars; Hosn Mubrak
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