Aydın Menderes
Aydın Menderes | |
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| Born | 5 May 1946 Berin Menderes |
| Relatives | Mutlu Menderes and Yüksel Menderes (siblings) |
Aydın Menderes (5 May 1946 – 23 December 2011) was a Turkish politician. He was a deputy, who represented various parties from 1977 to 2002. He was the youngest son of former prime minister Adnan Menderes.[1][2]
Biography
Menderes was born in 1946 as the third son of Adnan and Berrin Menders in Ankara. His father, who was prime minister since 1950 in office, was ousted by the 1960 military coup, tried and executed in 1961 along with two other government ministers.[2][3]
Following completion of his secondary education at the
His brother Yüksel committed suicide in 1972, and the other brother Mutlu died in a traffic accident in 1978. Aydın Menderes became disabled following a traffic accident in 1996, and was reliant on a wheelchair since then.[2]
He died on 23 December 2011 in a hospital in Ankara, where was treated for a long time. He was survived by his wife Ümran whom he married to in 1991.[3]
Politics career
Aydın Menders entered politics as the leader of Democtraic Party's Aydın Province organization in 1970. Following the 1977 general election, he entered the parliament as deputy of Konya Province from the Justice Party (AP).[1]
He was among the politicians, who were banned from the active politics for a time of ten-years after the
at the 1995 general election, he was elected Deputy of Istanbul from the Islamist Welfare Party (RP). The next year, he became deputy party leader. After the ban of the party in 1998, Aydın Menderes shifted to Virtue Party (FP), another Islamist party, and was elected deputy of Istanbul Province in the 1999 general election. After a while, he resigned from the Virtue Party.[1][3]
In the
Writing career
In 2003, Aydın Menderes began to write for the newspaper Tercüman. He wrote later columns for the daily Yeni Asır.
Between 1987 and 2005, he published books on his political thoughts.
Works
- Tarihte Bir Yolculuk (1987), Dergah Yayınları
- Aydın Menderes ve Siyasette Yeni Yönelişler (1992), Dergah Yayınları (Söyleyişlerinden bir secme)
- Yirmibirinci Yüzyıla Girerken Dünya ve Türkiye (1995, Demokrat Parti Yayınları
- Yirmibirinci Yüzyıla Girerken Demokrat Partinin Misyonu, Demokrat Parti Yayınları)
- Gelenekten Güncele (1999), Gün Yayıncılık
- Devletin Alınyazısı (2005), Kızılelma Yayınları
References
- ^ a b c d e Former Deputy Aydin Menderes Passes Away Archived 12 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine Turkish Weekly, 24 December 2011
- ^ a b c Farewell to Aydın Menderes Archived 26 December 2011 at the Wayback Machine Today's Zaman, 25 December 2011
- ^ a b c d e f "Son oğul Aydın Menderes vefat etti". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 24 December 2011. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
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