Adnan Menderes

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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. With the Motion with Four Signatures incident and internal party opposition to President İsmet İnönü, he was expelled from the CHP in 1945, and cofounded the center-right Democrat Party with Celâl Bayar, Mehmet Fuad Köprülü, and Refik Koraltan. The DP came to power after winning the 1950 general election, which represented a peaceful transition of power from the CHP. Bayar was subsequently elected president, and tasked Menderes as DP leader...

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