Hasan Polatkan was a Turkish

Turkish people

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 politician

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 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

He was born 1915 in Eskişehir

Eskisehir

Eskişehir is a city in northwestern Turkey and the capital of the Eskişehir Province. According to the 2009 census, the population of the city is 631,905. The city is located on the banks of the Porsuk River, 792 m above sea level, where it overlooks the fertile Phrygian Valley. In the nearby...

, Turkey

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. He studied political science at Istanbul University

Istanbul University

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. After his graduation in 1936, Polatkan worked at the state-owned Ziraat Bank as inspector.

He entered politics and was elected in 1946 deputy of Eskişehir into the Turkish Grand National Assembly for the Democratic Party

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. He served in the cabinet 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...

 as Minister of Labor (May 22, 1950 - December 14, 1950) and later twice as Minister of Finance (December 14, 1950 - December 9, 1955 and December 3, 1956 - May 27, 1960) until the Turkish Armed Forces

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 staged a coup and ousted the 19th government.

He was arrested with Menderes in Kütahya

Kütahya

Kütahya is a city in western Turkey with 212,444 inhabitants , lying on the Porsuk river, at 969 metres above sea level. It is the capital of Kütahya Province, inhabited by some 517 804 people...

, charged with corruption and violating the constitution along with some other party members, and put on trial on the island of Yassıada

Yassiada

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. Polatkan was sentenced to death and hanged on the island of İmralı

Imrali

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 on September 16, 1961, as were Adnan Menderes and Fatin Rüştü Zorlu

Fatin Rüstü Zorlu

Fatin Rüştü Zorlu was a Turkish diplomat and politician. He was executed by hanging after the coup d'état in 1960 along with two other politicians.-Biography:...

. Many years after his death, his grave was moved to a mausoleum in Istanbul

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 on September 17, 1990 along with Menderes' and Zorlu's remains.

He was survived by his wife and a child. A boulevard

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in Eskişehir is named after him.
Note: The name of this boulevard was changed as Atatürk Boulevard by Yılmaz Büyükerşen in 2001.