Aydın Menderes became disabled following a traffic accident in 1996, and was reliant on a wheelchair since then.
Following the 1977 general election, he entered the parliament as deputy of Konya Province from the Justice Party (AP).
[1] He was among the politicians, who were banned from the active politics for a time of ten-years after the 1980 military coup.
[1][3] In the 2002 general election, he ran for a seat in the parliament from the True Path Party (DYP) in Aydın.
Aydın Menderes quit the politics after Hüsamettin Cindoruk became leader of the party in May 2009.