The UDD and Puea Thai Party are supporting former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a coup in 2006.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

General Aziz came to power last August in a coup that toppled the country's first freely-elected leader, Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

Coup supporters said the left-leaning Mr.Zelaya sought to violate the country's constitution, and that interim President Roberto Micheletti was legally installed.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

Georgian opposition leaders are accusing President Mikheil Saakashvili for staging the alleged coup plot to divert attention from domestic problems.

VOA: standard.2009.05.05

He is referring to reports that the Army was planning a coup following the end of the 25-year-long civil war.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

Many here are enthusiastic supporters of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a 2006 military coup.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

He expressed concern that the perpetrators of the coup that ousted Mr.Zelaya might try to storm the embassy and arrest him.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

The self-styled philosopher-in-chief bears little resemblance these days to the brash young army officer who seized power in the 1969 coup.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

The agreement means Madagascar's cash-poor government will receive or 930 million dollars in aid that had been blocked after the March coup.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

The FNDD has opposed the coup since it took place in August, and is demanding a return to democracy and constitutional order.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

After President Zelaya was forced from office in June in an army-backed coup he came to the U.N.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

Writer Pinar Kur was one of them. "She has nothing to do with the military coup that was supposed to be being prepared.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

Thailand has faced four years of political uncertainty, since a military coup ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

The protesters largely support former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a coup in 2006.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

Australia and New Zealand's relations with and their small South Pacific neighbor,Fiji, have been in decline since an army coup in December 2006.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

The country has been under military rule since last December's coup by Army Captain Moussa Camara.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

Government spokesmen later backed away from the coup plot theory, saying the conspiracy was only aimed at assassinating government leaders and bombing strategic installations.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

Former Iranian President Abolhassan Bani Sadr, who was overthrown in a coup by religious leaders, including Ayatollah Khomeini,in 1981, called the election a fraud.

VOA: standard.2009.06.14

Mr.Thaksin,who was ousted in a coup in 2006,remains popular with the rural and urban poor.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

But Udon Thani is also home a small minority of Yellow Shirts, a rival movement whose street protests helped prompt the 2006 coup that removed Mr.Thaksin.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

The demonstrators, known as the "red shirts", are supported by exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted from power in a 2006 military coup.

VOA: standard.2009.04.13

Aziz led the military coup that toppled Mauritania's first freely-elected leader 11 months ago.

VOA: standard.2009.07.19

Cyprus has been divided since 1974, when Turkish troops invaded the island in response to a coup in Nicosia by supporters of a union with Greece.

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

The State Department on Thursday stopped short of formally calling Mr.Zelaya's ouster a military coup d'etat, which carries with it harsher aid penalties mandated by Congress.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

President Nimeiri was overthrown in a coup in 1985, while on a visit to the United States, and spent 14 years in exile in neighboring Egypt.

VOA: standard.2009.05.31

"And so therefore we have taken a deliberately hardline approach to this regime because we do not want this coup culture to spread elsewhere in the Pacific."

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

"The Brazilian government is gravely concerned that the same people who perpetrated the coup d'etat might threaten the inviolability of the embassy to forcibly arrest President Zelaya,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

But the Obama administration was quick to condemn his ouster by the military, and replacement with an interim government led by Roberto Micheletti, as an illegal coup.

VOA: standard.2009.07.01