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Melahat Gürsel
Melahat Gürsel (1899 – 23 February 1974) was the First Lady of Turkey from 27 May 1960 until 28 March 1966 during the presidency of her husband Cemal Gürsel. Melahat was born in 1899. Her father was the chief engineer on the Ottoman cruiser ''Hamidiye''. In 1927, she married army officer Cemal Bey, who was introduced to her by the older brother. From this marriage, a son Özdemir was born and the couple also adopted two daughters, Hatice and Türkan. On 27 May 1960, some mid-ranked Turkish Army officers staged a military coup, and overthrew the government. Four-star general Cemal Gürsel, then Commander of the Turkish Army, was appointed head of the state by the revolutionaries without a leader. He remained in office until his presidency was ended by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey on 28 March 1966 due to his illness. Gürsel was known as an economizing and proud woman. Also during her time as the First Lady, Melahat Gürsel remained a modest housewife, cooking foo ...
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List Of First Ladies Of Turkey
The first lady of the Republic of Turkey () is the wife of the president of Turkey.https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/yazarlar/ferai-tinc/birinci-hanim-kim-olacak-6295114# Twelve women have so far filled this role. Since 2014, the First Lady has been Emine ErdoÄŸan, wife of President (government title), President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan. Officeholders See also * Turkey * President of Turkey * First Lady Notes References

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1960 Turkish Coup D'état
The 1960 Turkish coup d'état (), also known as the 27 May Revolution ( or ''27 Mayıs Devrimi''), was the first coup d'état in the Republic of Turkey. It took place on 27 May 1960. The coup was staged by a group of 38 young Turkish military officers, acting outside the military chain of command. The officers were ''de facto'' led by Cemal Madanoğlu until the actual coup date. After a threat by Ragıp Gümüşpala that he would move to quell the coup unless it was led by someone with a higher military rank than himself, the officers brought in General Cemal Gürsel as their leader. The coup was carried out against the democratically elected government of the Democrat Party, and ultimately resulted in the execution of its prime minister, Adnan Menderes, alongside two of his ministers, Fatin Rüştü Zorlu and Hasan Polatkan. Background The incident took place at a time of both socio-political turmoil and economic hardship, as US aid from the Truman doctrine and the Mars ...
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First Ladies Of Turkey
The first lady of the Republic of Turkey () is the wife of the president of Turkey.https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/yazarlar/ferai-tinc/birinci-hanim-kim-olacak-6295114# Twelve women have so far filled this role. Since 2014, the First Lady has been Emine ErdoÄŸan, wife of President (government title), President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan. Officeholders See also * Turkey * President of Turkey * First Lady Notes References

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1899 Births
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''Cumhuriyet'' (; English: "Republic") is the oldest up-market Turkish daily newspaper. It has been described as "the most important independent public interest newspaper in contemporary Turkey". The newspaper was awarded the ''Freedom of Press Prize'' by Reporters Without Borders in 2015 and the Alternative Nobel Prize in 2016. Since 17 October 2005, the newspaper's headquarters have been located in Istanbul's Şişli district, after being the last newspaper to leave the traditional press district of Cağaloğlu. The newspaper also has offices in Ankara and İzmir. The newspaper'advertisementsbefore the 2007 Turkish presidential election and general election with the message "Are you aware of the danger?" were controversial. 's office in Istanbul was the site of a molotov attack in 2008. In 2010, the newspaper was one of the first up-market newspapers in Turkey to abandon the established broadsheet format for the midi-sized Berliner format. In January 2015, the n ...
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Hürriyet
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Grand National Assembly Of Turkey
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Turkish Army
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Cemal Gürsel
Cemal Gürsel (9 June 1894 – 14 September 1966) was a Turkish military officer and politician who was the fourth president of Turkey, serving from 1960 to 1966 after taking power in a coup d'état. Early life Gürsel was born in the town of Hınıs in the Erzurum Vilayet as the son of an Ottoman Army officer, Abidin Bey, and the grandson of Ibrahim (1821–1895) and the great-grandson of Hadji Ahmed (1788–1860). After the elementary school in Ordu and the military middle school in Erzincan, he graduated from the Kuleli military high school in Istanbul. He was a popular figure and was therefore nicknamed "Cemal Ağa" (Cemal the Big Fellow) since his childhood school years and onwards all his life. Gürsel served in the Army for 45 years. During World War I, he participated in the Battle of Çanakkale in Dardanelles, Gallipoli as a lieutenant with the First Battery of the 12th Artillery Regiment in 1915 and received the War Medal. He later fought at the Palestine and S ...
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