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Bakr Sidqi
August 11, 1937
Ottoman pasha and Iraqi general (1890-1937)
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Bakr Sidqi is an Iraqi soldier, known for his coup in 1936 that removed the government of Yassin al-Hashimi and killed Jaafar al-Askari, after which he assumed the position of Chief of Staff of the Iraqi Army, and before that he held the position of Commander of the Second Division in the Iraqi Army.
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- Anniversary · August 11
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