1941 in Turkey

← 1940 1939 1938 1941 in Turkey → 1942 1943 1944
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
See also:	List of years in Turkey

Events in the year 1941 in Turkey.^[1]

Parliament

• 6th Parliament of Turkey

Incumbents

• President – İsmet İnönü
• Prime Minister – Refik Saydam

Ruling party and the main opposition

• Ruling party – Republican People’s Party (CHP)

Cabinet

12th government of Turkey

Events

• 18 January – Petrol Ofisi a national petrolium company was founded
• 24 March – Turco Soviet declaration. Soviet Union promised neutrality in case of an assault to Turkey
• 18 June – Turco German agreement of friendship
• 22 June – Turkey declared neutrality in the recently started Germany-USSR War (In WW2)
• 23 June – Refah tragedy, a Turkish ship was torpedord by an anonymous battle ship, causing 168 deaths
• 10 December – 1941 Van–Erciş earthquake
• 19 December – Due to war time hardships, bread consumption was restricted in İstanbul

Births

• 15 may – Özdemir Sabancı, industralist
• 24 June – Erkin Koray, musician
• 18 July – Bedrettin Dalan, Mayor of İstanbul
• 26 August – Ayşe Kulin, writer
• 13 September – Ahmet Necdet Sezer, president (2000–2007)
• 21 November – İdil Biret, pianist
• 26 December – Şener Şen, actor

Deaths

• 25 April – Salih Bozok (born in 1881), Atatürk’s aide de camp
• 3 July – Kâzım Dirik (born in 1881), retired general
• 17 July – Meliha Ulaş (born in 1901), politician, teacher
• 7 October – Cemal Mersinli (born in 1975), retired general

Gallery

• 
  İsmet İnönü
• 
  Refik Saydam
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  Ayşe Kulin
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  Ahmet Necdet Sezer
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  Şener şen
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  Salih Bozok
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  Kazım Dirik
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  Meliha Ulaş
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  Cemal Mersinli

References

1. ↑ Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 88–90

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