Aydın Menderes (5 May 1946 – 23 December 2011) was a Turkish politician. He was a
deputy
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, who represented various parties from 1977 to 2002. He was the youngest son of former
prime minister
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Adnan Menderes
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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 military coup, tried and executed in 1961 along with two other government ministers.
Following completion of his secondary education at the
TED Ankara College
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History
At ...
in 1964, he attended Ankara Academy of Commerce and Economics, graduating in 1968. He entered trade business first, switched over to politics in 1970. In 1976, Aydın Menderes completed his military service at
Iskenderun.
His brother Yüksel committed suicide in 1972, and the other brother Mutlu died in a traffic accident in 1978. Aydın Menderes became disabled following a traffic accident in 1996, and was reliant on a wheelchair since then.
He died on 23 December 2011 in a hospital in Ankara, where was treated for a long time. He was survived by his wife Ümran whom he married to in 1991.
Politics career
Aydın Menders entered politics as the leader of
Democtraic Party's
Aydın Province
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organization in 1970. Following the
1977 general election, he entered the parliament as deputy of
Konya Province
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from the
Justice Party (AP).
He was among the politicians, who were banned from the active politics for a time of ten-years after the
1980 military coup
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. In 1993, he established the "Great Change Party" (BDP) and became its leader. In 1994, his party merged into the
Democrat Party (DP), which was relaunched in 1992 after its closure in 1980. Aydın Menderes was elected its leader and served at this post until 1995.
at the
1995 general election, he was elected Deputy of Istanbul from the
Islamist Welfare Party
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(RP). The next year, he became deputy party leader. After the ban of the party in 1998, Aydın Menderes shifted to
Virtue Party
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(FP), another Islamist party, and was elected deputy of Istanbul Province in the
1999 general election. After a while, he resigned from the Virtue Party.
In the
2002 general election, he ran for a seat in the parliament from the
True Path Party
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(DYP) in Aydın. However, the DYP failed to gain any seat in the parliament. In 2007, the DYP and the
Motherland Party (ANAP) merged to form and to revive the
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(DP). Aydın Menderes quit the politics after
Hüsamettin Cindoruk
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became leader of the party in May 2009.
Writing career
In 2003, Aydın Menderes began to write for the newspaper ''
Tercüman
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''. He wrote later columns for the daily ''Yeni Asır''.
Between 1987 and 2005, he published books on his political thoughts.
Works
* ''Tarihte Bir Yolculuk'' (1987), Dergah Yayınları
* ''Aydın Menderes ve Siyasette Yeni Yönelişler'' (1992), Dergah Yayınları (Söyleyişlerinden bir secme)
* ''Yirmibirinci Yüzyıla Girerken Dünya ve Türkiye'' (1995, Demokrat Parti Yayınları
* ''Yirmibirinci Yüzyıla Girerken Demokrat Partinin Misyonu'', Demokrat Parti Yayınları)
* ''Gelenekten Güncele'' (1999), Gün Yayıncılık
* ''Devletin Alınyazısı'' (2005), Kızılelma Yayınları
References
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1946 births
2011 deaths
Burials at Topkapı Cemetery
Democratic Party (Turkey, 1970) politicians
Justice Party (Turkey) politicians
Welfare Party politicians
Virtue Party politicians
Deputies of Konya
Turkish columnists
Turkish people with disabilities
Turkish non-fiction writers
Deputies of Istanbul
Members of the 21st Parliament of Turkey
Members of the 20th Parliament of Turkey