ISTANBUL: Adnan Menderes, former prime minister of Turkey, was hanged yesterday, it was officially announced last night.
Earlier, it was announced that Mr. Menderes would be hanged as soon as physicians declared him well enough to be taken to the gallows. A spokesman said in the afternoon that as soon as the doctors had declared Mr. Menderes physically fit, he would be escorted to the gallows and executed “without further delay”.
The Turkish government was yesterday subjected to considerable pressure from both foreign and domestic sources to grant a reprieve to the former premier. The British Ambassador, Sir Bernard Burrows, was received by President Gen Cemal Gursel and French Ambassador Henri Spitzmuller had seen Foreign Minister Selim Sarper.
These interventions were viewed with disfavor by the young officers’ group which has not concealed its disappointment that 12 of the 15 persons sentenced to death in the mass treason trial have already been reprieved.
Sources said Ismet Inonu talked with Mr. Menderes yesterday morning, and later conferred with Mr Sarper and Chief of the General Staff General Sunay.
According to a Vatican City report, the Pope was also believed to have asked President Gursel to show all possible clemency to the condemned politicians.
Mr. Menderes, waiting execution of the death sentence against him, regained consciousness yesterday as he recovered from the massive overdose of sleeping pills he had taken that had rendered him unable to appear in court to hear the sentence, an official communiqué announced. Mr Menderes had slept for 36 hours straight
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Adnan Menderes
| |   Adnan Menderes.   The execution of Adnan Menderes in 1961.  The execution of Adnan Menderes in 1961. |
Menderes became quite famous of selling or distributing most of the estate he had inherited to small shareholder.Menderes was more tolerant towards traditional lifestyles and the different forms of practice of Islam than Atatürk and his party had been. While remaining pro-Western, he was more active than his predecessors in building relations with Muslim states.Menderes had a more liberal economic policy than earlier prime ministers, and allowed more private enterprise. In general Mederes' economic politics made him popular among the poor half of the population, but it also brought the country in insolvency due to an enormous increase in imports of goods and technology.But Menderes was most intolerant towards criticism, and instituted press censorship and had journalists arrested. Mederes became increasingly unpopular among both the intellectuals and the military, who feared that the ideals of Atatürk were in danger. This eventually brought upon him his fall. Biography
1899: Born in Aydin, as son of a wealthy landowner.
1930: Enters parliament as member of the only legal party, Republican People's Party (RPP).
1945: Menderes is expelled from the RPP.
1946: Together with three others, Mederes forms the Democrat Party (DP), following the introduction of a new multiparty system in Turkey.
1950: In the free elections, the DP wins with clair margins to the RPP.
1954: Despite economic problems, Mederes wins the general elections again.
1957: Mederes wins a third election in a row, despite the continuing decline of the economy.
1960 May 27: A military coup is staged, and the government of Mederes is overthrown.
— October 17: Mederes is accused with a number of charges, like embezzling state funds, extravagance and corruption.
1961: Menderes is sentenced to death, and executed by hanging.
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