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Adnan Menderes

1899 - 1961

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Adnan Menderes (Turkish: [adˈnan ˈmændeɾes]; 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 Turkey. He was tried and hanged under the military junta after the 1960 coup d'état, along with two other cabinet members, Fatin Rüştü Zorlu and Hasan Polatkan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adnan Menderes has received more than 805,502 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Adnan Menderes is the 1,357th most popular politician (up from 1,690th in 2019), the 192nd most popular biography from Turkey (up from 233rd in 2019) and the 105th most popular Turkish Politician.

Adnan Menderes was the Prime Minister of Turkey from 1950 to 1960. He was overthrown in a military coup d'état.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Adnan Menderes ranks 1,357 out of 15,577Before him are Phorcys, Genrikh Yagoda, Tedros Adhanom, Constantine III, Cyrus I, and Andronikos I Komnenos. After him are Yang Shangkun, Jamukha, Mohammed Omar, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Qin Er Shi, and Perseus of Macedon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Adnan Menderes ranks 15Before him are Lavrentiy Beria, Yasunari Kawabata, Frederick IX of Denmark, László Bíró, Fred Astaire, and Francis Poulenc. After him are Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Duke Ellington, Erich Kästner, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Béla Guttmann, and Fritz Albert Lipmann. Among people deceased in 1961, Adnan Menderes ranks 13Before him are Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Emily Greene Balch, Jules Bordet, Zog I of Albania, and Rafael Trujillo. After him are Frantz Fanon, Mohammed V of Morocco, Percy Williams Bridgman, Kurt Meyer, Otto Loewi, and Paul Landowski.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Adnan Menderes ranks 192 out of 1,301Before him are Pope Sabinian (530), Beyhan Sultan (1497), Constantine IV (652), Theodore of Amasea (300), Phorcys (null), and Andronikos I Komnenos (1118). After him are Süleyman Demirel (1924), Hippodamus of Miletus (-498), Proclus (412), Sabiha Gökçen (1913), Anthemius (420), and Yunus Emre (1240).

Among POLITICIANS In Turkey

Among politicians born in Turkey, Adnan Menderes ranks 105Before him are Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca (1853), Briseis (null), Beyhan Sultan (1497), Constantine IV (652), Phorcys (null), and Andronikos I Komnenos (1118). After him are Süleyman Demirel (1924), Anthemius (420), Turgut Özal (1927), John VI Kantakouzenos (1292), Isaac I Komnenos (1007), and Sultan Cem (1459).