IntroductionIAdnan MenderesAdnan Menderes was born to a wealthy landowner in 1899 in Aydin province. He received a Medal of Honor for his efforts in the Turkish War of Independence. Menderes was invited by Atatürk to join the Republican People's Party and was later elected as deputy for Aydin by the party leadership. Due to his opposition to Ismet Inonu's nationalization policy, 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 or commonly known as DP was founded by him and his colleagues, 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 9% annually during his 10-year term. Turkey gained economic support from the United States through the Marshall Plan, which proved beneficial to the nation still recovering from the strains of war. It was during his tenure that Turkey became a member of NATO. Menderes was more tolerant of the traditional way of life. He sold most of the estate he had inherited to small shareholders, gaining popularity in the process. Menderes did more than his predecessors to establish good relations with Muslim countries, even though he was pro-Western. Menderes introduced 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 not the EU's business to involved in this matter. He was stubborn and his stubbornness to give up worked for him many times as a politician. Especially in the Cyprus conflict and even in relations with the United States. He did not let the Kurds have an autonomous state in the southeast, even though the United States continued to harass him. Ecevit as a politician was someone who could not be moved or persuaded easily, but Ecevit the poet was different and less realistic than idealistic. He once wrote: “The golden age of the Aegean will be reborn through us as with the fire of the Aegean. the future, the home of the past comes to life. Turks and Greeks could sit together drinking raki and ouzo thanks to the blue magic of the sea that separated them. He wrote this in 1947, ten years before entering politics..