Hasan Polatkan, Turkish politician, 15th Turkish Minister of Finance (b. 1915)
Hasan Polatkan (1915 – 16 September 1961) was a Turkish politician and Minister of Labor and Finance, who was executed by hanging after the coup d'état in 1960 along with two other cabinet members.
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