Menderes

‘Meander: East to West, Indirectly, Along a Turkish River’ by Jeremy Seal (Bloomsbury USA, 416 pages, $18)

A commemoration ceremony was held at the Istanbul mausoleum of the late Prime Minister Adnan Menderes on Sept. 17, the 53rd anniversary of Menderes’ execution along with two ministers.

‘Military Intervention and a Crisis of Democracy in Turkey: The Menderes Era and Its Demise’ by Mogens Pelt (IB Tauris, £62, 304 pages)

‘Military Intervention and a Crisis of Democracy in Turkey: The Menderes Era and Its Demise’ by Mogens Pelt (IB Tauris, £62, 304 pages)

There is nothing to be surprised about with the word “epistemological,” but you don’t usually hear it from the mouth of a Turkish politician.

Perhaps there is nothing abnormal in one country’s intelligence agency spying on the top executives of another country to gather sensitive economic, political and, of course, military data that might be used in an economic, political or - God forbid - military confrontation.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s end has been an issue of curiosity for a long time. For some; his end will be bad; but whose end will his end resemble?

Before, there was reference to the fate of Adnan Menderes; a former prime minister whose life ended at the gallows.