1951 in Turkey

Parliament

• 9th Parliament of Turkey

  Incumbents

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

  Ruling party and the main opposition

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

  Cabinet

• 19th government of Turkey
• 20th government of Turkey

  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 – 1951 Kurşunlu earthquake
• 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, politician
• 26 July – Ali Sami Yen, founder of Galatasaray sports club
• 20 August – İzzettin Çalışlar, retired general, who participated in the Turkish War of Independence
• 31 August – Mazhar Osman Usman, doctor and the founder of Bakırköy Psychiatric Hospital
• 11 December – Mustafa Muğlalı, retired general, who participated in the Turkish War of Independence

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