Tishreen Dam, 35th Anniversary of the Correctionist Movement

Number by catalogue:  Michel: 2203   Yvert: 1292   Gibbons: 2205  

Perforation: Comb   Perforation type: 11 ½x12

Subject:

25 Syrian pounds. Bird's eye view of the dam

Additional:

The Tishrin Dam is a dam on the Euphrates, located 90 kilometres (56 mi) east of Aleppo, Syria. The dam is 40 metres (130 ft) high and has 6 water turbines capable of producing 630 MW. Construction lasted between 1991 and 1999. Rescue excavations in the area that would be flooded by the dam's reservoir have provided important information on ancient settlement in the area from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) period upward.

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The Syrian coup d'état (1970) (otherwise known as the Correctional Revolution or the Correctional Movement) is the name of the political process that took place in the Syrian Arab Republic in 1970.

“Correctional reforms” of Hafez al-Assad (Syrian statesman, political and military figure, President of Syria (1971-2000)) soon after the coup in foreign policy were aimed at normalizing relations with other Arab states, since during the short presidency of  Salah Jadid (the de facto leader of the country in 1966-1970) the country found itself in diplomatic isolation. Hafez al-Assad sought to establish working relations with Egypt and Saudi Arabia. One of Assad’s main foreign policy objectives was to establish a “Damascus-Cairo-Riyadh axis” in order to strengthen military-political interaction in the ideological struggle with Israel.