Map: The world of coups since 1950

  An attempted coup in Turkey last week shocked and surprised many across the world. But coups and attempted coups have long been an all-too-familiar occurrence around the world. How many exactly? Well, at the time of writing, there have been around 475 coup attempts since 1950. That's according to a dataset compiled by Jonathan Powell and Clayton Thyne, […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/07/22/map-the-world-of-coups-since-1950/