Hasan Polatkan

Hasan Polatkan ( born 1915 in Eskişehir, † September 16, 1961 on the prison island İmralı ) was a Turkish politician and until the military coup of 1960 finance ministers of Turkey.

Life

After studying political science at the University of Istanbul in 1936 Polatkan worked as an inspector at the state Ziraat Bank.

After his entry into politics, he was in 1946 elected as a deputy from Eskişehir for the Democrat particles in the Grand National Assembly and held from May 1950 to December 1950 in the cabinet of Prime Minister Adnan Menderes, the Office of the Secretary of Labor. He later served 1950-1955 and 1956-1960 as Minister of Finance of Turkey, to the May 27, 1960 coup, the Turkish military and he was arrested.

The coup ushered in the Yassıada processes against the Prime Minister Menderes and officials of his government and party, a total of 592 people. After that time the Turkish Penal Code, the death penalty was possible against people " to change, replace or seek to override the Constitution ." Polatkan, Menderes, Bayar Celâl, Fatin Rüştü Zorlu and eleven other former government officials were sentenced to death.

On September 16, the death sentences against Polatkan and Zorlu and on 17 September were enforced the judgment against Menderes on the prison island İmralı. The remaining death sentences were commuted to life imprisonment and Bayar was spared for reasons of age.

On 17 September 1990 and his remains were transferred from Menderes and Zorlu to Istanbul and buried in the so-called Anıtmezar. In Eskişehir is a boulevard named after him.