The Greek junta or Regime of the Colonels [a] was a right-wing military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974. On 21 April 1967, a group of colonels overthrew the caretaker government a month before scheduled elections which Georgios Papandreou's Centre Union was …

On April 21, 1967, Greece woke up to a military junta taking over power. The colonels at the head of this brutal regime ended up putting the country in shackles for seven years. For Greeks, it is a date they would like to erase from their history.

The Greek junta trials (Greek: Οι Δίκες της Χούντας translated as: The Τrials of the Junta) were the court trials involving members of the military junta that ruled Greece from 21 April 1967 to 23 July 1974.

Jan 2, 2025 · The Greek Junta, known as the Regime of the Colonels, was a right-wing military dictatorship that ruled from 1967 to 1974. Led initially by Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos and later by the hardliner Dimitrios Ioannidis, it seized power in a sudden coup on 21 April 1967.

The Greek junta or Regime of the Colonels[a] was a right-wing military dictatorship that controlled Greece from 1967 to 1974. On 21 April 1967, a group of colonels removed the caretaker government a month before elections that Georgios Papandreou and his political party, Centre Union, would probably win. [1]

Oct 27, 2024 · In "The Trials of the Greek Junta: A Brief History of an Overlooked Legal Past," Samantha de Verteuil recounts the aftermath of the military dictatorship in Greece (1967-1974) and the trials that followed its collapse.

The military junta, known simply as the Junta in Greece (Χούντα στην Ελλάδα), was imposed on 21 April 1967 when army officers, led by Colonel George Papadopoulos, Brigadier Stylianos Pattakos and Colonel Nikolaos Makarezos seized power in a coup d’état.

There are some who want the island to unite with Greece (enosis), others who wanted to partition the Greek and Turkish Cypriots, and some who believe the two peoples could live together peacefully.

rule by military junta In Greece: Civil war and its legacy …heavy-handed and absurd, the “Colonels,” as the military junta came to be known, misruled the country from 1967 to 1974.

The Greek junta refers to a period of military rule in Greece from April 21, 1967, to July 24, 1974, marked by the overthrow of the legitimate government and the establishment of a repressive regime known as the "colonels." This regime instituted widespread censorship and human rights abuses, including torture and illegal detentions, as it sought to quell dissent and maintain control.