Adnan Menderes

Adnan Menderes
9th Prime Minister of Turkey
In office 22 May 1950 – 27 May 1960
President	Celal Bayar
Preceded by	Şemsettin Günaltay
Succeeded by	Cemal Gürsel
Personal details
Born	1899 Koçarlı, Aydın Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
Died	17 September 1961 (aged 61–62) İmralı, Turkey
Political party	Liberal Republican Party Republican People's Party (CHP) Democrat Party (DP)
Spouse(s)	Berrin Menderes (1906–1994)
Children	Yüksel, Mutlu, Aydın
Alma mater	Ankara University, Law School
Religion	Islam
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Adnan Menderes (Turkish: [adˈnan mendeˈɾes]; 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 Rüştü 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.

Adnan Menderes was born in 1899 in Koçarlı, Aydın Province, as the son of a wealthy landowner of Crimean Tatar origin. After primary school, Menderes attended the American College in İzmir. He fought against the invading Greek army during the Turkish War of Independence and was awarded a medal of honour. He graduated from the Law School of Ankara University. In 1930, Menderes organized a branch of the short-lived Liberal Republican Party (Serbest Cumhuriyet Fırkası) in Aydın. After the party dissolved itself, he was invited by Atatürk himself to join the ruling Republican People's Party and was selected by the party leaders as a deputy of Aydın in 1931. In 1945, he was expelled from the party with two other colleagues due to inner-party opposition to the nationalization policies of the then self-declared "National Chief" İsmet İnönü.

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