With this post, we unveil a new metadata category, the Daily Double — related executions on actual consecutive dates in the same year. (We’re also retroactively defining an old Themed Set post into this category.)

The Turkish Republic, so violently born, has endured a tumultuous past half-century or so. In keeping with the Cold War Zeitgeist, it also enjoyed its share of coups.

The first such struck in May of 1960, toppling the elected (but by then deeply unpopular with young military officers) government of Adnan Menderes. Menderes had been Prime Minister for a decade, but he and two of his ministers would check out with the distinction of being the last politicians executed in Turkey.

• Sep. 16: Fatin Rustu Zorlu and Hasan Polatkan
• Sep. 17: Adnan Menderes

• 1599: Celestino da Verona
• 2011: Li Lei, of whom much was expected
• 1581: Peter Niers
• 1996: Youssouf Ali, the first in independent Comoros
• 1776: Robert Harley and Edward George, tea smugglers
• 1723: Hermann Christian von Wolffradt, Chancellor of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
• 1846: Andrew Kim Taegon, the first Korean priest
• 1931: Omar Mukhtar, Libyan revolutionary
• Feast Day of St. Euphemia
• 1938: Albert Dyer, sex killer (presumably)
• 1870: Jacob Wallace, Henry Coston, and Moses and Peter Newby
• 1961: Fatin Rustu Zorlu and Hasan Polatkan
• 1560: Arnaud du Tilh, alias Martin Guerre