Renamed the Democracy and Freedom Island, Yassıada in the Marmara Sea sheds light on Türkiye’s dark past as the venue of the ...

On the occasion of today's 65th anniversary of the military coup of 1960, which led to the hanging of then Prime Minister ...

One of the darkest days in Turkey's history came May 27, 1960, when a military junta toppled the elected government of Prime Minister Adnan Menderes. Menderes was the first democratically-elected ...

For eleven months, when Turks referred to “The Island,” it was understood that they meant Yassiada island, off Istanbul, where former Premier Adnan ... the bodies. Menderes’ hanging was ...

But the channel for middle school students aged 12-15 broadcast an animated recreation of former premier Adnan ... Menderes' neck, a stool being kicked out from underneath him and then his feet ...

The tomb at the center belongs to Adnan Menderes, a former Turkish prime minister who was ousted by a military junta in 1960 and executed a year later, along with his foreign and finance ministers.

Adnan Menderes, Turkey’s first democratically-elected prime minister, was executed following a 1960 coup, which has come symbolize a dark period in Turkish history. He was born in 1899 in Turkey ...

Matthew Sweet talks to author Jeremy Seal about the way Adnan Menderes mobilised democracy, populism, and religious beliefs, and looks at new research into the Ottoman Empire. Show more Before his ...