The phrase "abortive putsch" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a failed coup or attempt to overthrow a government or authority.
Example: "The country experienced an abortive putsch that left the political landscape in turmoil."
Alternatives: "failed coup" or "unsuccessful takeover".
Soon afterwards Dollfuss was assassinated during an abortive putsch by Austrian Nazis.
The abortive putsch that hastened the end of the Soviet Union in 1991 occurred in August.
The abortive putsch gave Hitler worldwide fame but led him to decide to achieve power by legal means.
Erdoğan's government has blamed Gülen for orchestrating the abortive putsch, in which over 200 people were killed, and has rounded up his alleged supporters.
The insurgents were more numerous in the abortive putsch of 2008 and weightier in June 2009, when James Purnell quit as welfare secretary and called on Mr Brown to go too.
In 1991, six days after the abortive putsch that signaled the end of the Soviet Union, President Boris N. Yeltsin issued a decree allowing Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to broadcast from Russia.
Following an abortive coup, an army putsch saw up to a million Indonesians massacred for being Communists or suspected PKI members.
His initial whiff of excitement came in 1923 during Hitler's abortive Munich putsch, which Himmler participated in as a member of a paramilitary organization known as the German Combat League, led by Ernst Röhm.
For the first time since his starring role in stabilising Spain's post-fascist democracy in 1975 and warding off an abortive military putsch in 1981, he has become a bit of a laughing stock.
Anton Rintelen, (born Nov. 15, 1876, Graz, Austria died Jan . 28 , 1946near Graz), jurist and politician who was twice minister of public instruction in the first Austrian republic; he was the pretender to the federal chancellorship during the abortive Nazi putsch of July 1934.
1981 - President Ziaur Rahman is assassinated in abortive coup.
