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Adnan Menderes
Adnan Menderes
(; 1899 – 17 September 1961) or
Ali Adnan Ertekin Menderes
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 a
mausoleum
built in his honor.
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