Aydın Menderes (5 May 1946 – 23 December 2011) was a Turkish politician. He was a

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, who represented various parties from 1977 to 2002. He was the youngest son of former

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Adnan Menderes Ali Adnan Ertekin 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 ...

.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 military coup, tried and executed in 1961 along with two other government ministers. Following completion of his secondary education at the

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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 Democratic Party's

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organization in 1970. Following the 1977 general election, he entered the parliament as deputy of

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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. 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 The Welfare Party (, RP) was an Islamist political party in Turkey. It was founded by Ali Türkmen, Ahmet Tekdal, and Necmettin Erbakan in Ankara in 1983 as heir to two earlier parties, National Order Party (MNP) and National Salvation Party ...

(RP). The next year, he became deputy party leader. After the ban of the party in 1998, Aydın Menderes shifted to

Virtue Party Virtue Party (, FP) was an Islamist political party established on 17 December 1997 in Turkey. It was found unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court and then banned on 22 June 2001 for violating the secularist articles of the Constitution. A ...

(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 The True Path Party (, DYP) was a centre-right political party in Turkey, active from 1983 to 2007. For most of its history, the party's central figure was Süleyman Demirel, a former Prime Minister of Turkey who previously led the Justice Part ...

(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 Democratic Party (DP). Aydın Menderes quit the politics after

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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 ''Tercüman: Halka ve Olaylara'' was a Turkish daily newspaper. It was founded in 1955 by Kemal Ilıcak (1932–1993), and associated with the center-right. It was based in the now demolished Tercüman Building. It was temporarily closed d ...

''. 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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