Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river of western Turkey flowing about 585 km (365 mi) southwest and west to the Aegean Sea. In ancient times it was called the Maeander and was legendary for its winding course.
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The safety issue was raised again when a Turkish Airlines plane carrying the country's prime minister, Adnan Menderes, crashed in fog on 17 February, 1959.
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Chief Executive Menderes Akdag blamed "soft demand and increased competition" for results below the year-ago levels.
Consumer Spending Grates Paul Vigna 2010
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In that period, it is only the conservative parties which were also able to single handedly form single party governments like Adnan Menderes, Suleiman Demerel, Turgut Ozal and now Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Turkey Fights For A Secular Islam « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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Menderes founded Democratic Party in 1946 that was the first legal opposition party in Turkey.
Pakistan 29 years after Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's execution 2008
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In 1950, 1954 and 1957 Menderes won three successive elections.
Pakistan 29 years after Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's execution 2008
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Menderes was sentenced to death for violating the secular Constitution, paradoxically by the same officers who themselves had violated the Constitution by conspiring against a democratically elected government.
Pakistan 29 years after Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's execution 2008
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Menderes, who denies that he violated the law, if convicted, could face three years in jail.
Glasnost In The Air 2007
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The state prosecutor alleges that Menderes said "damn Ataturk" at a party meeting in 1994.
Glasnost In The Air 2007
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This satellite photo from Google Earth is of the area in western Turkey where the Meander Büyük Menderes River empties into the Aegean Sea.
Archive 2006-02-01 AYDIN 2006
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To the north of the Büyük Menderes is the Küçük Menderes (Little Meander), the ancient Cayster (Caystros).
Archive 2006-02-01 AYDIN 2006
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