Coup in a sentence

There was a coup, not just a coup but a coup in the government.

A shootout in Guinea-Bissau’s capital Friday was an attempted coup, Embalo said Sunday Dec. 3, 2023 after a meeting with security forces, confirming fears over the latest threat to democracy in the increasingly volatile and coup-hit West Africa.

I personally think the Coup Fighters for a band name or "Get Elected Or Coup Trying" for an album work too.

Since 1932, 12 successful coups have taken place in Thailand, plus an additional seven coup attempts, making Thailand the most coup-prone country on Earth.

These anti-coup protests are the obverse side of the pro-coup settlorist demonstrations.

The tussle was so fierce that when Gen. Robert Guei led a military coup that sacked Bedie in December 1999, Ouattara described it as, “ not a coup but a revolution supported by all the Ivorian people”.

To keep calling it a coup doesn't make it a coup!

With a member of the family in charge of the country’s armed services in the aftermath of the coup, Sibanda’s appointment could be regarded as having been an overt case of coup-proofing in case the army got excited again as they had been in November 2017.

On the opposition predicting a coup in the Congress, Revanth reminded about the 1984 coup that Nadendla Bhaskar Rao had planned against the then chief minister of AP NT Rama Rao.

The U.S. government, which had intervened a decade earlier to save Aristide from a military coup, took a very different view in 2004 and looked on Philippe's coup with, at a minimum, benign indifference (some would say complicity).

He suggested the purported alliance amounted to a soft military coup, echoing Netanyahu’s claims that the investigations into his affairs were an “attempted coup” by police and prosecutors.

In that interview, not only the U.S. for giving the green light to right-wing coup leaders but also attributed the coup to Western anger over his decision to sell some of the country’s valuable lithium supply to China rather than to the West.

It was actually Southern officers that executed Nigeria’s first military coup before the North perfected the art of coup plotting and used it to entrench Northern domination.

Thomas Sankara was ousted in coup d’état led by Blaise Compaoré Burkina Faso, land of the upright man owes its name to Thomas Isidore Sankara, a revolutionary army Captain who took over power in a coup d’etat in 1983.

Brunson was arrested in the aftermath of a 2016 coup attempt for alleged links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, as well as a network led by U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is blamed by Turkey for the coup attempt.

He was in Turkey on the night of the coup attempt, and after he returned to the United States, Turkish authorities accused him of being one of the coup plotters.

The judiciary’s endorsement of the coup suggested two further dangers, either the country’s constitution fails to insulate against a coup or the judiciary has failed to protect the country against one, or both.

Whilst many might have limited knowledge on how a coup operates, this was certainly not a coup.

Amid corruption, repression of the church, and the near bankruptcy of the state, a military coup in 1926 installed a dictatorship that remained until another coup in 1974.

Attempted coup On 15 July 2016 factions within the Turkish Military attempted to overthrow President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, citing growing non-secularism and censorship as motivation for the attempted coup.