"It is cruelty that they executed Adnan Menderes," he said adding the execution ... of Menderes and his grave was turned into a mausoleum, located in Istanbul. Being the last Turkish ...

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 ... the execution of Menderes and his grave in Istanbul was turned into a mausoleum. Being the last Turkish political leader to be executed after ...

Mr. Erdogan's visit to Istanbul's Adnan Menderes mausoleum took him back to the man he cited when he called early polls for May 14 in a bid to ease his way to an unprecedented third decade of rule.