1947 in Turkey

← 1946 1945 1944 1947 in Turkey → 1948 1949 1950
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
See also:	List of years in Turkey

Events in the year 1947 in Turkey.^[1]

Parliament

• 8th Parliament of Turkey

Incumbents

• President - İsmet İnönü
• Prime Minister

Recep Peker (up to 10 September)

Hasan Saka (from 10 September)

• 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

15th government of Turkey(up to 10 September)

16th government of Turkey (from 10 September)

Events

• 20 February – Trade Union was founded
• 7 April – By elections
• 12 March – US military aid to Turkey
• 12 July – Mutual Declaration of the ruling and the opposition parties about democracy
• 9 September – Recep Peker who was considered as a hard-line politician resigned from his post as prime minister
• 21 September – Mine incident in Kozlu, Zonguldak , 21 deaths
• 25 October – Soviet Union asked to annex Kars and Ardahan in the United Nations assembly
• 27 November – Statues of Halkevleri was changed

Births

• 1 January – Cemil Turan, footballer
• 5 January – Osman Arpacıoğlu, footballer
• 1 April – Beşir Atalay, government minister
• 16 April – Erol Evgin, singer
• 22 December – Tarık Ümit, intelligence official
• 21 May – İlber Ortaylı, academic, historian
• 14 July – Salih Neftçi, economist
• 4 August – Ertuğrul Özkök, journalist
• 5 August – Osman Durmuş, politician, MD
• 15 October – Hümeyra Akbay, singer
• 12 December – Hülya Koçyiğit, actress
• 27 December – Osman Pamukoğlu, military officer, politician

Deaths

• 2 February – Mehmet Naki Yücekök (born in 1866), retired military officer
• 6 March - İhsan Eryavuz, former government minister and businessman
• 27 July – Cemal Nadir Güler (born in 1902), caricaturist
• 26 November –Saffet Arıkan (born in 1888) former government minister
• 3 December -Mehmet Atıf Ateşdağlı (born in 1876), retired military officer

Gallery

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  İsmet İnönü

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  Şükrü Saracoğlu

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  Recep Peker

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  Hasan Saka

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  Celal Bayar

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  İlber Ortaylı

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  Hülya Koçyiğit

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  Osman Pamukoğlu

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  mehmet Naki Yücekök

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  İhsan Eryavuz

References

1. ↑ Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 100-102

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