Abdelkhalek Torres

عبد الخالق الطريس (Known as "Torres")

Leader of the Northern National Movement, Founder of the National Reform Party

Born May 26, 1910

Tetouan, Morocco

Passed Away May 27, 1970 Tangier, Morocco

Lifespan 60 years old

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"The north and south are one heart beating for one sovereign motherland."

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Undisputed leader of Moroccan nationalism in the Spanish Protectorate zone, orator, founder of the National Reform Party (Hizb al-Islah al-Watani), and post-independence Minister of Justice.

Biographical Record

Abdelkhalek Torres was born into an aristocratic Andalusian family of Tetouan. Educated in Cairo and Paris, he founded the National Reform Party in Tetouan in 1936, establishing modern Arabic schools, national theater troupes, and independent newspapers such as Al-Wahda al-Maghribiyya.

A spellbinding orator, Torres organized mass demonstrations asserting Moroccan national unity under Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef. Following reunification and independence in 1956, he served as ambassador to Spain and Egypt and Minister of Justice.

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Final Resting Place

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Sidi al-Mandri Cemetery
Tetouan, Morocco

                         GPS: 35.5712, -5.3722                    

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