Adnan Menderes

Adnan Menderes
Menderes in 1939
9th Prime Minister of Turkey
In office 22 May 1950 – 27 May 1960
President	Celal Bayar
Preceded by	Şemsettin Günaltay
Succeeded by	Cemal Gürsel
Leader of the Democrat Party
In office 9 June 1950 – 27 May 1960
Preceded by	Celal Bayar
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Member of the Grand National Assembly
In office 25 April 1931 – 27 May 1960
Constituency	Aydın (1931, 1935, 1939, 1943) Kütahya (1946) Istanbul (1950, 1954, 1957)
Personal details
Born	1899 Koçarlı, Ottoman Empire
Died	(1961-09-17)17 September 1961 (aged 62) İmralı, Turkey
Cause of death	Execution by hanging
Political party	SCF (1930) CHP (1930–45) DP (1946–60)
Spouse	Berrin Menderes ​ (m. 1928)​
Children	Yüksel, Mutlu, Aydın
Alma mater	Ankara University, Law School
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Ali 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.