Turkey, 1962 — military coup attempt
Event Summary
On 22 February 1962 Staff Colonel Talat Aydemir, commander of the Turkish Military Academy, led a failed coup attempt, known as the February 22 Incident, against the coalition government of Prime Minister Ismet Inonu and the civilian order that had been restored after the 1960 military coup. Aydemir and his associates, opposed to the return to full civilian rule and resentful of dismissals and appointments within the officer corps, mobilized cadets and sympathetic units and took control of much of Ankara. But they lacked the backing of the army high command, especially the Chief of the General Staff, and once it was clear they could not prevail without it, the coup leaders surrendered without any loss of life.
The government initially treated the plotters leniently, granting a pardon, but Aydemir mounted a second, bloodier coup attempt in May 1963 for which he was tried and executed.
Researched Details
Researched
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Sources
Editorial Note
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
64002221962- Albrecht/Koehler/Schutz (CAM) id
CAM-640-1962-02-22
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Prime Minister Ismet Inonu and the civilian government survived the February 1962 coup attempt; the coup leaders surrendered.
Baseline coding: Coup attempt failed to remove the incumbent. Recorded leader fate: remained in office; not physically harmed. The baseline file does not name individual targets; researched names are kept in a separate layer.
Baseline Dataset Citation
Baseline Source-Document Entries
CSP
Luttwak (27 February 1962)
New York Times
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