1951 in Turkey

← 1950 1949 1948 1951 in Turkey → 1952 1953 1954
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	Years in Turkey

Events in the year 1951 in Turkey.^[1]

Incumbents

• President – Celal Bayar
• Prime Minister –Adnan Menderes
• Leader of the opposition - İsmet İnönü

Ruling party and the main opposition

• Ruling party - Democrat Party (DP)
• Main opposition - Republican People’s Party (CHP)

Cabinet

• 19th government of Turkey (up to 9 March)
• 20th government of Turkey (from 9 March)

Events

• 21 January – First convoy of wounded Turkish Brigade soldiers from Korean War arrived in Turkey
• 26 June – The corpse of the reformist grandvizier Mithat Pasha, who was assassinated in Saudi Arabia in 1883, was buried in İstanbul
• 2 July – Presidential yacht MV Savarona was transferred to the Turkish Naval Forces
• 8 August – Halkevleri, a state sponsored enlightenment project, was ended
• 13 August - Earthquake in Kurşunlu, around Çankırı
• 17 September – Byelections
• 1 October – Turkish Air Force Academy was founded

Births

• 16 February – Ferhan Şensoy theatre actor
• 5 April, Nedim Gürsel, writer
• 23 July, Leman Sam, singer
• 6 September – Melih Kibar, composer
• 14 December – Nükhet Ruacan, jazz singer
• 16 December - Aykut Barka, earth scientist specialized in earthquakes

Deaths

• 3 January – Ali Münif Yeğenağa (born in 1974), politician (Ottoman Empire and Turkey)
• 26 July – Ali Sami Yen (born in 1886), founder of Galatasaray sports club
• 20 August – İzzettin Çalışlar (born in 1882), retired general, who participated in the Turkish War of Independence
• 31 August – Mazhar Osman Usman (born in 1884), doctor and the founder of Bakırköy Psychiatric Hospital
• 11 December – Mustafa Muğlalı (born in 1882), retired general, who participated in the Turkish War of Independence

Gallery

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  Celal Bayar

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  Adnan Menderes

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  İsmet İnönü

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  Nedim Gürsel

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  Leman Sam

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  Melih Kibar

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  Aykut Barka

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  Ali Sami Yen

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  İzzettin Çalışlar

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  Mustafa Muğlalı

References

1. ↑ Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 116-118

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