1949 in Turkey

← 1948 1947 1946 1949 in Turkey → 1950 1951 1952
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
See also:	List of years in Turkey

Events in the year 1949 in Turkey.^[1]

Parliament

• 8th Parliament of Turkey

Incumbents

• President – İsmet İnönü
• Prime Minister

Hasan Saka (up to 16 January)

Şemsettin Günaltay (from 16 January)

• Leader of the opposition – Celal Bayar

Ruling party and the main opposition

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

Cabinet

17th government of Turkey (up to 10 June)

18th government of Turkey (from 10 June)

Events

• 14 January – Hasan Saka, the prime minister resigned
• 24 January – Nationalistic poet Behçet Kemal Çağlar resigned from CHP protesting Şemsettin Günaltay's cabinet and claiming that the laicate principle of the party was sacrificed
• 1 February – Religion course was offered to primary school children
• 9 July – Fire in Çorum passenger ship. 61 deaths
• 17 August – 1949 Karlıova earthquake
• 15 October – By elections
• 16 November – Several members of the Nation Party were arrested on a fake assassination charge (It was claimed that they were planning to assassinate İsmet İnönü and Celal Bayar, but several days later they were released)

Births

• 10 January – Kemal Derviş, economist and politician
• 20 February – Adnan Kahveci, politician
• 25 February – Esmeray Diriker, singer
• 25 February – Sevil Atasoy, biochemist, forensic expert
• 21 March – Muammer Güler, politician
• 29 March – Kayahan Açar, singer
• 15 April – Kadir İnanır, actor
• 14 November – Güneş Taner, politician
• 13 December – Tarik Akan, actor

Deaths

• 21 February – Ali Çetinkaya (born in 1878), politician
• 31 December – Rıza Tevfik Bölükbaşı (born in 1869), philosopher, politician

Gallery

• 
  İsmet İnönü
• 
  Hasan Saka
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  Şemsettin Günaltay
• 
  Celal Bayar
• 
  Kemal Derviş
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  Kadir İnanır
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  Ali Çetinkaya
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  Rıza Tevfik Bölükbaşı

References

1. ↑ Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 107–110

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