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Adnan Menderes
Adnan Menderes was born to a wealthy landowner in 1899 in Aydin province. He was awarded a medal of honour for his efforts in the Turkish war of independence. Menderes was invited by Ataturk to join the Republican Peoples Party and was then elected as the deputy of Aydin by party leaders. Due to his opposition to Ismet Inonu’s nationalization policies he was expelled from the party in 1945.
Adnan Menderes served as prime minister of the Turkish republic for ten years, 1950 – 1960. The third legal opposition party of Turkey, the Democratic Party or commonly known as DP was founded by him and his fellow companions which included Celal Bayar.
During his tenure as the Prime Minister of Turkey the nation underwent many changes such as urbanization, industrialization, development of rural areas and economic changes. The Turkish economy grew at the rate of 9% per annum during his term of 10 years. Turkey got the economic support of the U.S via Marshall Plan which proved to be beneficial for the nation still recovering from the strain of war. It was during his tenure that Turkey became a member of the NATO.
Menderes was more tolerant towards the traditional lifestyle. He sold most of the estate he inherited to small shareholders, gaining popularity in the process. Menderes did more to build good relations with the Muslim countries than his predecessors, even though he was pro-western. Menderes instilled a more liberal economic policy in Turkey and encouraged privatization.
Menderes was sentenced to death for violating the constitution. He was executed in 1960 after the military coup and was the last Turkish politician to be executed. He has a mausoleum built in his hono...
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...with the Greek over the Cyprus issue but Ecevit thought it was none of EU’s business to get involved in the matter.
He was stubborn and his stubbornness to give up worked for him many times as a politician. Most importantly in the Cyprus conflict and even when dealing with the United States. He did not let the Kurds have an autonomous state in the south east even though the United States kept on nagging about it. Ecevit as a politician was someone who could not be moved or persuaded easily but Ecevit the poet was different and less of realist and more of an idealist.
He once wrote “The golden age of the Aegean will revive through us as with the fire of the future, the hearth of the past comes alive. Turk and Greek might sit together drinking raki and ouzo by the blue magic of the sea that divided them.” He wrote this in 1947 ten years before he entered politics.
The men at the forefront of the Young Turk’s rebellion were Mehmed Talaat, Ismail Enver and Ahmed Djemal. Eventually, they came to have more of a dictatorial sort of rule on their people, with their own visions of what they wanted for the Turkic people. They all wanted to unite their people and expand ...
As a teen, he grew tall and strong and most of the teasing stopped. He became the editor of the school newspaper and had a prestigious role as the political information officer. He was known as an ardent reader with a great memory. He became very involved in politics but had no social skills and no friends. He had an especially hard time trying to relate to girls.
...itly the Christian Orthodox and Jews, which were the largest minority groups from Turkey. In addition, according to nationalist elites, these minorities were assimilable thus, were not capable of becoming part of the Turkish nation. Also, they stated that, the Non-Muslim minorities, mainly the Greek, were not composed of loyal citizens but possible traitors to the Turkish state (Guven 2006). Adnan Menderes believed that was national and extremely important responsibility of every Turk to implement the Turkification, in an attempt to establish an independent Turkish state. A corollary of this concept was the effort of assimilation of the Greek minority by force, exercising a policy of discrimination and restrictions against it. In this context, the language, culture and desires of Non-Muslim minorities had to be connected with the history and dignity of Turks.
The emergence of the Young Turk movement, the decline of the Ottoman Empire, and its defeat in World War I, saw many changes in Asia Minor. The internal conflict with the Armenians during the war, and the flight of hundreds of thousands of Greeks, led to a dramatic change in the population of the emerging Republic of Turkey. The moving of the Turkish capital to Ankara in 1923 led to a shift from the previous capital, Constantinople.
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