1930 in Turkey

← 1929 1928 1927 1930 in Turkey → 1931 1932 1933
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	List of years in Turkey

Events in the year 1930 in Turkey.^[1]

Parliament

• 3rd Parliament of Turkey

Incumbents

• President – Kemal Atatürk
• Prime Minister – İsmet İnönü
• Leader of the opposition – Fethi Okyar (12 August −17 November)

Ruling party and the main opposition

• Ruling party – Republican People’s Party (CHP)
• Main opposition – Liberal Republican Party (SCF) (12 August-12 November)

Cabinet

• 5th government of Turkey (up to 27 September)
• 6th government of Turkey (from 27 September)

Events

• 3 April – Women’s suffrage (in local elections) was legalized
• 7 May – The 7.1 M_w Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Up to three-thousand people were killed.
• 10 June – Agreement between Turkey and Greece concerning the population exchange problems in the 1920s.
• 12 August – Liberal Republican Party (SCF) was founded
• 26 September – People Republic Party, a second opposition party was founded
• 27 September – New government
• 17 November – SCF dissolved itself
• 23 December – Menemen Incident in which a group of reactionerists who opposed Atatürk’s reforms killed Mustafa Fehmi Kubilay a young lieutenant.

Births

• 26 February – Orhan Karaveli, journalist and writer
• 23 April – Şarık Tara, civil engineer and contractor
• 17 June – Adile Naşit, theatre player
• 1 September – Turgut Özakman, writer
• 23 September – Çelik Gülersoy, lawyer and historical preservationist
• 9 October – Rahmi Koç, industrialist

Deaths

• 26 February – Ahmet Rıza (born in 1858), politician
• 30 March – Hoca Ali Rıza (born in 1858), painter
• 8 August – Alaaddin Koval (born in 1878), general
• 23 December – Mustafa Fehmi Kubilay (born in 1906), lieutenant (lynched)

Gallery

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  Kemal Atatürk
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  İsmet İnönü
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  Fethi Okyar
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  Orhan Karaveli
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  Hoca Ali Rıza
  Self-portrait
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  Alaaddin Koval
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  Mustafa Fehmi Kubilay

References

1. ↑ Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 48–49

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