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Archive Home > 2010 > August > 17 > Leader of Greek coups dies at 87

Leader of Greek coups dies at 87

By New York Times News Service / The Bulletin
August 17, 2010

Dimitrios Ioannidis, a Greek military officer who twice helped plot successful coups in his own country, and once in Cyprus, prompting the 1974 invasion of that island nation by Turkey, died in Athens on Monday. He was 87.

News of his death came from European media reports that said he died in a....

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