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November 1973 was met with bloody suppression. Ioannidis, the most hardline of hardliners, became enraged with the "liberalizing" tendencies of the Papadopoulos leadership and hatched a plot to overthrow him using his loyal ESA forces. On the night of 25 November 1973, Ioannidis overthrew
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President of the Supreme Court and an ex-minister Zenon Severis, he tried to show to the outside world that the coup was merely an internal affair, but this effort went without any success. However, the coup provided the pretext for the
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Makarios to the presidency (and was the prelude to the island's current, divided state). Ioannidis could not survive such a humiliation, and was pushed out by the "coup of the generals" in August, headed by then
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political dissidents. They also became notorious for insulting their nominal superiors, the
Generals of the Greek Army, who were generally royalist or republican and opposed to the junta leadership. His
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Infantry School, the War School, and the School of Atomic-Chemical-Biological Warfare. As an army officer he took part also in the
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499:, for the charge of treason, which he served at
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964:. Vol. 26. Pella Publishing Company. 2000.
514:Thus, he spent 35 years in prison (1975–2010).
479:On 14 January 1975, Ioannidis was detained and
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696:. U.S. Department of State. March 2008.
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743:"Obituary: Dimitrios Ioannidis"
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1017:(in Greek), 16 August 2010.
931:(in Greek). August 17, 2010
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898:. Palgrave Macmillan.
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