Nur Muhammad Taraki (July 15, 1913 - September 14, 1979) was an Afghan political figure, amateur poet, and revolutionary. His party (the PDPA) was inevitably successful in overthrowing the Afghan monarchy and, after the prior president and his family were murdered in a coup, assumed authority as the next President of Afghanistan from 1978 until he too was overthrown (and likely thereafter murdered by one of his rivals in the PDPA) in 1979. Wikipedia
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