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Archives: Major General Bakr Sidqi, Commander of the 2nd Division of the Royal Iraqi Army, was an ethnic Kurdish military officer in the Royal Iraqi Army who staged the 1936 military coup—the very first coup d'état in modern Arab history. Following the success of the coup, he assumed the position of Chief of the General Staff of the Iraqi armed forces. Though he left King Ghazi on the throne, Sidqi established an autocratic military-backed regime behind Prime Minister Hikmat al-Sulayman…