Egypt, 2013 — military coup
Event Summary
On 3 July 2013 the Egyptian army chief, General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, led a coalition that removed President Mohamed Morsi from power, roughly a year after Morsi had been elected in the wake of the 2011 revolution that ousted Hosni Mubarak. El-Sisi had issued a 48-hour ultimatum and announced the appointment of an interim president, Adly Mansour. The removal was followed by a violent crackdown on Morsi's supporters, including the Rabaa dispersal of 14 August 2013.
Researched Details
Researched
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Sources
How It Unfolded
Hand-coded by Coup Atlas from the sources on this page, using a fixed list of tactics. Only events we have read through carry this coding, so most records do not have it yet.
- Led by
- Military
- How long it took
- Under a day — resolved within 24 hours
- Detention or expulsion of the incumbent leader
- Seizure of broadcasters / coup declaration on state media
- Troop movements in the capital or key cities
- Mass mobilization of civilians (for or against)
Cross-Reference
Datasets agree. At least two of the three reference datasets we check against carry this event, and none of them disagrees about its date or its result.
Identifiers for finding this same event in the other datasets:
- Cline Center id
65107032013- Albrecht/Koehler/Schutz (CAM) id
CAM-651-2013-07-03
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Mohamed Morsi, President of Egypt (removed).
Baseline coding: Incumbent executive removed from power. Recorded leader fate: deposed; arrested or jailed; tried. The baseline file does not name individual targets; researched names are kept in a separate layer.
Baseline Dataset Citation
Baseline Source-Document Entries
Powell and Thyne
Wikipedia
Wall Street Journal
The Independent
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