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Adnan Menderes
Adnan Menderes (; 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. Early life and career Adnan Menderes was born in 1899 in Koçarlı, Aydın Province, as a son of a wealthy landowner of Crimean Tatar origin. After primary school, Menderes attended the American College in İ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Minister Of Turkey
The prime minister of the Republic of Turkey (Turkish language, Turkish: ''Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Başbakanı'') was the head of government of the Republic of Turkey from 1920 to 2018, who led a political coalition in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Turkish Parliament and presided over the Cabinet of Turkey, cabinet. Throughout the political history of Turkey, functions and powers of the post have changed occasionally. Prior to its dissolution as a result of the 2017 Turkish constitutional referendum, 2017 Constitutional Referendum, the prime minister was generally the dominant figure in Turkish politics, outweighing the President of Turkey, president. Premiership in the Ottoman Era In the Ottoman Empire, the prime minister of the Ottoman sultan held the title of Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, Grand Vizier ( tr, Sadrazam). After the Tanzimat period in the 19th century, the grand viziers came to assume a role more like that of the prime ministers of contemporary Western Eu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aydın Vilayet
The Vilayet of Aidin or Aydin ( ota, ولايت ايدين, translit=Vilâyet-i Aidin, french: vilayet d'Aïdin) also known as Vilayet of Smyrna or Izmir after its administrative centre, was a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire in the south-west of Asia Minor, including the ancient regions of Lydia, Ionia, Caria and western Lycia. It was described by the 1911 ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' as the "richest and most productive province of Asiatic Turkey". At the beginning of the 20th century, Aidin Vilayet reportedly had an area of , while the preliminary results of the first Ottoman census of 1885 (published in 1908) gave the population as 1,390,783.Asia by , p. 459 The s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Military Junta
A military junta () is a government led by a committee of military leaders. The term ''junta'' means "meeting" or "committee" and originated in the national and local junta organized by the Spanish resistance to Napoleon's invasion of Spain in 1808.Junta ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (last updated 1998). The term is now used to refer to an characterized by |
Multi-party Period Of The Republic Of Turkey
The multi-party period of the Turkey, Republic of Turkey ( tr, Türkiye'de çok partili dönem) started with the establishment of the opposition Liberal Republican Party (Turkey), Liberal Republican Party (''Serbest Cumhuriyet Fırkası'') by Ali Fethi Okyar in 1930 after President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk asked Okyar to establish the party as part of an attempted transition to multi-party democracy in Turkey. It was soon closed by the Republican People's Party government, however, when Atatürk found the party to be too influenced by Islamist-rooted reactionary elements. In 1945, the National Development Party (Turkey), National Development Party (''Milli Kalkınma Partisi'') was founded by Nuri Demirağ. The next year, the Democrat Party (Turkey, 1946–1961), Democrat Party was established, and was elected in 1950. Very popular at first, the government, led by Prime Minister Adnan Menderes, relaxed the restrictions on public Islam and presided over a Economy of Turkey, booming ec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ankara University, Law School
The Ankara University, Law School ( tr, Ankara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi formerly known ''Ankara Adliye Hukuk Mektebi'') is a faculty for law of the Ankara University in Turkey. History Ankara University, Law School, was founded as a part of a legal revolution in Turkey by the endeavors of Mahmut Esat Bozkurt. The school was opened by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, on November 5, 1925. It was the first modern university-level institution of the newly founded Republic. The Law School had its first graduates in 1928. Atatürk remarked, "For no other institution do I feel such felicity that I feel for this institution, which will be the warranty of the Republic, and I am glad to reveal and open it" in the opening ceremony thereof. Authorized abbreviation is ''AÜHF'' . Notable graduates * Deniz Baykal – politician and former leader of the Republican People's Party * Jülide Gülizar – one of Turkey's first female news presenters * Adnan Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aydın Menderes
Aydın Menderes (5 May 1946 – 23 December 2011) was a Turkish politician. He was a deputy, who represented various parties from 1977 to 2002. He was the youngest son of former prime minister Adnan Menderes.Former Deputy Aydin Menderes Passes Away ''Turkish Weekly,'' 24 December 2011 ''Today's Zaman,'' 25 December 2011 Biography Menderes was born in 1946 as the third son of Adnan and Berrin Menders in Ankara. His father, who was prime minister since 1950 in office, was ousted by the 1960 m ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berin Menderes
Fatma Berrin Menderes (1905 – April 22, 1994) was the wife of Adnan Menderes, the ninth prime minister of Turkey. Life In 1905, Evliyazade Hacı Mehmet Efendis daughter Evliyazade Naciye Hanım and Yemişçibaşı İzzet Beys youngest child came to the world in Izmir. Berrin Menderes married Adnan Menderes in 1928. In 1931, her husband was elected as a member of the Republican People's Party (CHP), the only political party at the time. After this, their children Yüksel (1930–1972), Mutlu (1937–1978) and Aydın (1946–2011) came to the world in Ankara. Her husband Adnan Menderes became prime minister after the Democratic Party (DP) came to power in 1950. Adnan Menderes, who served as prime minister for 10 years, was arrested on May 27, 1960, when the DP was removed from power. He was executed on 17 September 1961 in İmralı Island. Berrin Menderes lost her eldest son, Yüksel Menderes, in 1972. After her older sister Güzin Dülger died in 1975 and her middle son Mutlu d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republican People's Party
The Republican People's Party ( tr, Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi, , acronymized as CHP ) is a Kemalist and social-democratic political party in Turkey which currently stands as the main opposition party. It is also the oldest political party in Turkey, founded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the first president and founder of the modern Turkish Republic. The party is also cited as the founding party of modern Turkey. The CHP describes itself as a ''modern social-democratic party, which is faithful to the founding principles and values of the Republic of Turkey". Its logo consists of the Six Arrows, which represent the foundational principles of Kemalism: republicanism, reformism, laicism (Laïcité/Secularism), populism, nationalism, and statism. It is the main opposition party to the ruling conservative Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the Grand National Assembly with 135 MPs. The political party has its origins in the various resistance groups founded during the Turki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Republican Party (Turkey)
The Liberal Republican Party (sometimes referred to as the Free Republican Party; in tr, Serbest Cumhuriyet Fırkası, acronymized as SCF ) was a political party founded by Fethi Okyar upon President Kemal Atatürk's request in the early years of the Turkish Republic.https://www.kafkas.edu.tr/dosyalar/sobedergi/file/008/1_0.pdf In the context of the One-party period, Mustafa Kemal requested for Okyar to create a new movement as an opposition party to confront the ruling Republican People's Party with the aim of establishing the tradition of multi-party democracy in Turkey. After the first tentative of Progressive Republican Party during the period 1924-1925, it represents the second attempt to create a pluralist system in the country. Even if the party advocated liberal views, both economically and politically, in its program, it was quickly embraced by many opponents of Atatürk's reforms, particularly regarding secularism. Thus, after its participation in the 1930 loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Execution By Hanging
Hanging is the suspension of a person by a noose or ligature around the neck.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. Hanging as method of execution is unknown, as method of suicide from 1325. The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' states that hanging in this sense is "specifically to put to death by suspension by the neck", though it formerly also referred to crucifixion and death by impalement in which the body would remain "hanging". Hanging has been a common method of capital punishment since medieval times, and is the primary execution method in numerous countries and regions. The first known account of execution by hanging was in Homer's ''Odyssey'' (Book XXII). In this specialised meaning of the common word ''hang'', the past and past participle is ''hanged'' instead of ''hung''. Hanging is a common method of suicide in which a person applies a ligature to the neck and brings about unconsciousness and then death by suspension or partial suspension. Methods of judicial hanging The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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