1949 in Turkey

1949
in
Turkey

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

Incumbents

Hasan Saka (up to 16 January)
Şemsettin Günaltay (from 16 January)

Ruling party and the main opposition

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 secular 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

Deaths

gollark: I got some shadow walkers. Can they fetch a few reds on the Hub?
gollark: Though *they'll* probably make the biomes all empty, which isn't great.
gollark: _should probably grab loads of the new holidays_
gollark: Wow. A *chicken* asking for a pumpkin!
gollark: Funny lineage: https://dragcave.net/lineage/ybckw

References

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