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Türkiye Remembers Prime Minister, Ministers Killed by Junta

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It has been 65 years since Adnan Menderes was hanged by a military junta, but the memory of the prime minister is still vivid. He is remembered as a beloved figure and one of the f...

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AK Party Spokesperson Ömer Çelik, in a post on his social media account, commemorated the late Prime Minister Adnan Menderes, Foreign Minister Fatin Rüştü Zorlu, and Finance Minister Hasan Polatkan on the 65th anniversary of their executions. Stating that coups are the greatest evil inflicted upon the will of the nation, Çelik...

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Interior Minister Mustafa Çiftçi commemorated Adnan Menderes, Fatin Rüştü Zorlu, Hasan Polatkan, and Namık Gedik on the 65th anniversary of their executions. Describing May 27th as "a dark stain on the will of the nation," Çiftçi stated that Turkey would not allow any form of tutelage over the national will.

President Erdoğan commemorated Prime Minister Adnan Menderes and ministers Fatin Rüştü Zorlu and Hasan Polatkan, who were executed after the 1960 coup, on the anniversary of their deaths.

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In a statement marking the 65th anniversary of the executions of Menderes, Zorlu, and Polatkan, Süleyman Soylu argued that the Turkish right wing represents a fully independentist line. Soylu stated that the roots of today's policy of full independence go back to the 1950s and 1960s.

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Ali Adnan Menderes, one of the iconic figures of Turkish political history, was born in Aydın in 1899. Having lost his mother Tevhide Hanım, his father Ethem Bey, and his older sister Melike to tuberculosis, Ali Adnan took over the Çakırbeyli Farm, which his grandfather Hacı Ali Paşazade had bequeathed to him, after finishing school. Menderes began his political career in the Free Republican Party, and after the party was dissolved, he joined th…

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Haberler broke the news on Thursday, September 17, 2026.
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