Adnan Menderes

9th Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey from 1950 to 1960

Ali Adnan Ertekin Menderes (Turkish: [adˈnan ˈmændeɾes]; 1899 – 17 September 1961) was a Turkish politician who served as Prime Minister of Turkey between 1950 and 1960, and one of the founders of the Democrat Party (DP). Hailing from a landowning family of Western Anatolia, he began his political career in 1930 with the short-lived Liberal Republican Party. After it was banned he was inducted into the ruling Republican People's Party (CHP), identifying with the party's liberal-conservative faction that was against land reform and state-run enterprises.

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