IntroductionIAdnan MenderesAdnan Menderes was born to a wealthy landowner in 1899 in Aydin province. He was awarded a Medal of Honor for his efforts in the Turkish War of Independence. Menderes was invited by Ataturk to join the Republican People's Party and was then elected Aydin's deputy by the party leaders. Because of his opposition to Ismet Inonu's nationalization policies, he was expelled from the party in 1945. Adnan Menderes served as prime minister of the Turkish republic for ten years, from 1950 to 1960. Turkey's third legal opposition party, the Democratic Party o commonly known since DP was founded by him and his companions including Celal Bayar. During his tenure as Prime Minister of Türkiye, the nation underwent many changes such as urbanization, industrialization, development of rural areas and economic changes. Turkey's economy grew at a rate of 9% annually during his 10-year tenure. Turkey gained economic support from the United States through the Marshall Plan which proved beneficial to the nation which was still recovering from the tensions of the war. It was during his tenure that Turkey became a member of NATO. Menderes was more tolerant of the traditional lifestyle. He sold most of the inherited property to small shareholders, gaining popularity in the process. Menderes did more than his predecessors to build good relations with Muslim countries, even though he was pro-Western. Menderes instilled a more liberal economic policy in Türkiye and encouraged privatization. Menderes was sentenced to death for violating the constitution. He was executed in 1960 after the military coup and was the last Turkish politician to be executed. He had a mausoleum built in his honor... middle of paper... with the Greeks on the Cyprus issue, but Ecevit thought it was none of the EU's business to get involved in the issue. He was stubborn and his stubbornness to give up worked many times for him as a politician. Especially in the Cyprus conflict and also in relations with the United States. He did not allow the Kurds to have an autonomous state in the southeast, even as the United States continued to harass him. Ecevit as a politician was someone who could not be easily moved or persuaded, but Ecevit the poet was different and less realist and more idealist. He once wrote: “The golden age of the Aegean will be reborn through us as with the fire of the future Aegean, the hearth of the past lives again. Turks and Greeks could sit together drinking raki and ouzo in front of the blue magic of the sea that divided them. He wrote it in 1947, ten years before entering politics.