1925 in Turkey

Parliament

• 2nd Parliament of Turkey

  Incumbents

• President – Kemal Atatürk
• Prime Minister
• Leader of the opposition – Kazım Karabekir

  Ruling party and the main opposition

• Ruling party –Republican People’s Party
• Main opposition – Progressive Republican Party

  Cabinet

• 3rd government of Turkey
• 4th government of Turkey

  Events

• 1 January –Turkey gained the right of duty tax
• 11 February – Beginning of Sheikh Said rebellion
• 17 February – Tax of Ashar ended. An important reform in the daily lives of the villagers
• 24 February – The rebels captured Elazığ
• 26 February – End of the Regie Company. An important step in the economics
• 3 March – Fetkhi Okyar’s cabinet which was ineffective against the rebellion was replaced by İsmet İnönü's new cabinet
• 4 March – Independence Tribunals
• 8 March – Rebels were defeated around Diyarbakır
• 12 April – Sheikh Said was arrested
• 1 May – Earthquake in Adana
• 3 June – Independence Tribunal closed the Progressive Republican Party
• 5 August – Atatürk and Latife Hanım were divorced
• 25 August – In Kastamonu Atatürk made a speech on traditional costume and expressed his preference for western style hat
• 4 September – First ball in which Muslim women attended
• 25 November – The Hat reform
• 30 November – Tekkes, traditional institutions were closed

  Births

• 11 March – İlhan Selçuk, journalist
• 5 April – Sadri Alışık, actor
• 28 May – Bülent Ecevit, journalist, prime minister
• 15 June – Atilla İlhan, poet
• 6 July – Gazi Yaşargil, MD
• 15 August – Münir Özkul, theatre actor
• 28 September – Ali Bozer, lawyer, politician
• 9 December – Atıf Yılmaz, film director
• 22 December – Lefter Küçükandonyadis, footballer

  Deaths

• 14 February – Halit Pasha, general, politician
• 12 March – Hüseyin Ferit Törümküney, bureaucrat, politician
• 29 June – Şeyh Said, recel leader
• 18 December – Süleyman Sırrı Aral, engineer, politician

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