Adnan Menderes

Adnan Menderes
Menderes in 1939
9th Prime Minister of Turkey
In office
22 May 1950 – 27 May 1960
PresidentCelal Bayar
Preceded byŞemsettin Günaltay
Succeeded byCemal Gürsel
Leader of the Democrat Party
In office
9 June 1950 – 27 May 1960
Preceded byCelal Bayar
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Member of the Grand National Assembly
In office
25 April 1931 – 27 May 1960
Constituency
Personal details
Born1899
Koçarlı, Ottoman Empire
Died(1961-09-17)17 September 1961 (aged 62)
İmralı, Turkey
Cause of deathExecution by hanging
Political partySCF (1930)
CHP (1930–45)
DP (1946–60)
Spouse
(m. 1928)
ChildrenYüksel, Mutlu, Aydın
Alma materAnkara University, Law School
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Adnan Menderes (Turkish: [adˈnan ˈmændeɾes]; 1899 – 17 September 1961) was a Turkish politician who served as Prime Minister of Turkey between 1950 and 1960. He was one of the founders of the Democrat Party (DP) in 1946, the fourth legal opposition party of Turkey. He was tried and hanged under the military junta after the 1960 coup d'état, along with two other cabinet members, Fatin Rüştü Zorlu and Hasan Polatkan. One of the accusations brought against him was of him ordering the Istanbul pogrom against citizens of Greek ethnicity. He was the last Turkish political leader to be executed after a military coup and is also one of the four political leaders of the Turkish Republic (along with Kemal Atatürk, Süleyman Demirel and Turgut Özal) to have had a mausoleum built in his honour.