biography
pronunciation:
[menderes]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1899–1961)
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| biography:
| Turkish statesman and prime minister (1950–60), born near Aydin, W Turkey. Though educated for the law, he became a farmer, and entered politics in 1932. In 1945 he became one of the leaders of the new Democratic Party, and was made prime minister when it came to power in 1950. Re-elected in 1954 and 1957, in May 1960 he was deposed and superseded after an army coup. He appeared as defendant with over 500 officials of his former Democratic Party administration at the Yassiada trials (1960–1), was sentenced to death, and hanged. |
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