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Menderes Akbulut, general manager of Koral Travel, which mainly serves the British market, said many small hotels have already begun to close.

Broadcaster NTV said Brunson would get on a private jet at Izmir’s Adnan Menderes airport and fly to the United States.

Following a coup in 1960, elected Prime Minister Adnan Menderes was hanged.

Erdogan, who’s long sought to create a “presidential system,” Monday visited the tombs of three former Turkish prime ministers, Turgut Ozal, Adnan Menderes and Necmettin Erbakan, all of whom favored a stronger presidency in Turkey.

Modern Turkey has a history of civil unrest and military coups, including one that resulted in the execution of the elected prime minister, Adnan Menderes, in 1960.