Ba'ath Party seizes power in the 17 July 1968 coup

On 17 July 1968 the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party took power in Iraq through a coup, installing Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as president with Saddam Hussein as the regime's enforcer and eventual president (from 1979). The party then ran Iraq as a one-party state for 35 years.

Referenced entities

Parties

Ba'ath Party (Iraq)

Politicians

Saddam Hussein head-of-state

Sources

en.wikipedia.org

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APA 7Reference list · academic default

Gara, T. (2026). Ba'ath Party seizes power in the 17 July 1968 coup [Event record]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/6174769d-6407-49a0-a696-a533c1612bfc

Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals

Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Ba'ath Party seizes power in the 17 July 1968 coup." Event record, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed July 27, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/6174769d-6407-49a0-a696-a533c1612bfc.

BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers

@misc{tayyar-event-6174769d-6407-49a0-a696-a533c1612bfc,
  title     = {{Ba'ath Party seizes power in the 17 July 1968 coup}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Event record},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/6174769d-6407-49a0-a696-a533c1612bfc},
  urldate   = {2026-07-27},
  note      = {Event date: 1968-07-17. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

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If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint

Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper

BibTeXPreprint

@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-07-27},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

Event date: 1968-07-17. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.