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1980 Surinamese coup d'état (also known as the Sergeants' Coup): A group of military officers, led by Dési Bouterse, overthrew the government of Prime Minister Henck Arron. The coup began a military dictatorship that lasted until 1991.
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The first coup in the Turkish republic took place in 1960, during a time of heightened tensions between the Turkish government and the opposition. The ruling Democratic Party, headed by prime minister Adnan Menderes and president Celal Bayar, began to loosen some of the toughest Ataturk-era rules dealing with religion: it allowed thousands of mosqu...
The Turkish economy stagnated in the late 1960s, and the recession caused widespread unrest: workers’ groups staged demonstrations, sometimes violent, and right-wing groups carried out attacks of their own. The currency was devalued in 1960; annual inflation reached nearly 80 percent. So in March the military intervened once again, an effort to “re...
Instability continued even after the 1971 coup: Turkey changed prime ministers 11 times in the 1970s, the economy continued to stagnate, and left and right-wing groups continued their violent clashes in the streets. Thousands of people were assassinated. The military began discussing a possible coup in late 1979, and in March 1980 a group of genera...
The 1995 election led to overwhelming gains for the Islamist Welfare party, which took power the following year as the head of a coalition government. In 1997 the military issued a series of “recommendations”, which the government had no choice but to accept. The prime minister, Necmettin Erbakan, agreed to a compulsory eight-year education program...
The 1980 Turkish coup d'état (Turkish: 12 Eylül Darbesi, lit. 'September 12 coup d'état'), headed by Chief of the General Staff General Kenan Evren , was the third coup d'état in the history of the Republic of Turkey , the previous having been the 1960 coup and the 1971 coup by memorandum .
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Sep 12, 2023 · History. The Ankara Method: Turkey’s Coup at the Turning Point of the Cold War. By Matthew Petti on September 12, 2023. The years 1979 and 1980 were turning points in history. U.S. national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski described an “ arc of crisis ” across the Muslim world, from the Horn of Africa to the Indian subcontinent.
Sep 17, 2010 · By Roger Owen. Thirty years ago on 12 September 1980 Turkey experienced a military coup, its third in twenty years.
Apr 30, 2007 · Brij Lal (1988, 1992) sees the defeat of the Alliance Party that ruled Fiji from 1970 to 1987 as the principle cause of the coup. Victor Lal (1988) analyzed the possibility of foreign involvement and contextualized the events of May within the super power rivalry of the 1980's.
Figure 2. Coup Frequency Across Space, 1950–2023 ( Thyne & Powell, 2011 ). Combining both spatial and temporal trends, Figure 3 displays the frequency of coups over time by region. As can see, Latin America led the charge with coup activity until around 1970, and then Africa has largely led since.
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