Definitions
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- noun A sudden overthrow of a government that gained power by a coup d'état.
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- noun A
coup which seeks to overthrow the government installed by a previous coup
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- noun a sudden and decisive overthrow of a government that gained power by a coup d'etat
Etymologies
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Examples
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Eisenhower authorized the CIA to cooperate with the British in an operation that was actually a countercoup because the Mossadegh government had forced the Shah of Iran to abdicate.
Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011
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Eisenhower authorized the CIA to cooperate with the British in an operation that was actually a countercoup because the Mossadegh government had forced the Shah of Iran to abdicate.
Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011
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Dimitrios Ioannidis, 87, the feared security chief who led a countercoup against Greece's military leaders and provoked Turkey's invasion of Cyprus in 1974, has died.
Dimitrios Ioannidis, 87, dies; former Greece security chief led countercoup 2010
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The shah took back power in 1953 and kept Iran under tight control to prevent a countercoup by the communists.
The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010
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But army hard-liners, led by Mr. Ioannidis, staged a successful countercoup on Nov. 25, 1973, and ruled Greece with increasing harshness and incompetence for the next eight months.
Dimitrios Ioannidis, 87, dies; former Greece security chief led countercoup 2010
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Mr. Chávez even suggested that Honduras's military should stage a countercoup to restore Mr. Zelaya.
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Within other bodies of the power elite and see if they can essentially stage what could amount to be a countercoup.
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Holed up in his own headquarters, he began to improvise a countercoup.
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The two Western countries believed they were not supporting a coup—that was what Mossadegh was carrying out—but rather a countercoup by the Shah and Zahedi.14
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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As far as he was concerned, the countercoup had failed and he had little hope of ever returning to Tehran.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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