Fatin Rüştü Zorlu was a Turkish

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 diplomat

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 and politician

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. He was executed by hanging after the coup d'état in 1960

Military coup in Turkey, 1960

The military coup in Turkey, 1960 was a coup d'état staged by a group of Turkish army officers, against the democratically elected government of the Democrat Party on 27 May 1960....

 along with two other politicians.

Biography

He was born on April 20, 1910 in Istanbul

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 to a family originating from the village of Zor, Artvin

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 in northeastern Turkey

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. After finishing high school at Galatasaray High School, Zorlu was educated in political science

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 at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris

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, France

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 and in Law

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 at the University of Geneva

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, Switzerland

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.

Political career

Returning to Turkey, Zorlu began his career as a diplomat in 1932 in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1938 on, he served at various posts in embassies and consulates in Bern (Switzerland), Paris

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 (France), Moscow

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 (USSR), Beirut

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 (Lebanon

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) and at the ministry in Ankara as well. Following Turkey’s joining of NATO on February 18, 1952, he was appointed Ambassador

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 to NATO at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe

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 in Paris.

In 1954, Zorlu entered politics and was elected into the Turkish Grand National Assembly as the deputy of Çanakkale

Çanakkale

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 for the Democratic Party

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. He served as Deputy Prime Minister between 1954 and 1955, as Minister of State in 1955 and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1957 until the Turkish Armed Forces

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 staged a coup on May 27, 1960 and ousted the government of Prime Minister Adnan Menderes

Adnan Menderes

Adnan Menderes was the first democratically elected Turkish Prime Minister between 1950–1960. He was one of the founders of the Democratic Party in 1946, the fourth legal opposition party of Turkey. He was hanged by the military junta after the 1960 coup d'état, along with two other cabinet...

.

He was arrested along with some other party members, charged with violating the constitution

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, and put on trial on the island of Yassıada

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. He was sentenced to death and executed by hanging on the island of İmralı

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 on September 16, 1961 along with Adnan Menderes and Hasan Polatkan

Hasan Polatkan

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. Many years after his death, he, along with Adnan Menderes

Adnan Menderes

Adnan Menderes was the first democratically elected Turkish Prime Minister between 1950–1960. He was one of the founders of the Democratic Party in 1946, the fourth legal opposition party of Turkey. He was hanged by the military junta after the 1960 coup d'état, along with two other cabinet...

 and Hasan Polatkan

Hasan Polatkan

Hasan Polatkan was a Turkish politician and Minister of Labor and Finance, who was executed by hanging after the coup d'état in 1960 along with two other cabinet members.-Biography:...

, was posthumously pardoned and his grave was moved to a mausoleum

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in İstanbul on September 17, 1990 along with the graves of the two other cabinet members hanged.