Adnan Menderes | oppressed Prime Minister Turkey | who hanged very day 1961

Adnan Menderes, the oppressed Prime Minister of Turkey, who was hanged on this very day in 1961

Adnan Menderes, the oppressed Prime Minister of Turkey, who was hanged on this very day in 1961.

Adnan's first "crime" was that he resorted to legal means to repeal the law banning the call to prayer in Arabic in Turkey, and on June 17, 1950, 18 years later, Turkey Adhan was given in Arabic in various dimensions.

 His second "crime" in the Muslim world was to build a mosque right in front of the shrine of "Father of Secularism" Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, for which he paid 100,000 lira (Turkish currency) out of his own pocket. Adnan Menderes' third "crime" was to lift the ban on the Hajj Baitullah during the Atatرکrk era, and thus a quarter of a century later, 25 years later, in 1950 alone, 423 Turks performed the Hajj.

Adnan Menderes has largely broken the shackles that were put on the feet of Islam during the establishment of democracy in Turkey.

In May 1960, the Turkish military overthrew the government, prosecuted Adnan and some members of his cabinet in court, and sentenced some people, including Adnan, to death for baseless violations of the constitution. The army was so obsessed with "defending secularism" that it ignored the demands of many world leaders, including US President John F. Kennedy and Queen Elizabeth II, and was hanged on September 17, 1961. The other two politicians hanged included Fatan Rashto Zorlo, the foreign minister in Adnan's cabinet.

But Adnan's blood did not go in vain. Islamic-minded politicians continued to dominate Turkish politics, until Najmuddin Erbakan's Rafah party came to power in 1995 and was ousted within a few years. The Adalat and Tarqi Party came to power and has won three consecutive elections under Erdogan's leadership and is still in parliament with a simple majority.