Adnan Menderes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Turkish politician and Prime Minister of Turkey
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Place of Birth: Aydın, Turkey
About Adnan Menderes
- Adnan Menderes (Turkish: [ad'nan 'mænde?es]; 1899 – 17 September 1961) was a Turkish politician.
- He was the Turkish Prime Minister between 1950–1960.
- He was one of the founders of the Democrat Party (DP) in 1946, the fourth legal opposition party of Turkey.
- He was hanged by the military junta after the 1960 coup d'état, along with two other cabinet members, Fatin Rüstü Zorlu and Hasan Polatkan.
- He was the last Turkish political leader to be executed after a military coup and is also one of the three political leaders of the Turkish Republic (along with Atatürk and Turgut Özal) to have had a mausoleum built in his honor.
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