1958 in Turkey

← 1957 1956 1955 1958 in Turkey → 1959 1960 1961
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	List of years in Turkey

Events in the year 1958 in Turkey.[1]

Parliament

• 11th 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 (DP)
• Main opposition – Republican People’s Party (CHP)

Cabinet

• 23rd government of Turkey

Events

• 16 January – Nine army officers were arrested (9 officer event)
• 1 March – Commuter boat Üsküdar sank. Most of the passengers were students
• 2 June – Publication ban on the statements made by İsmet İnönü, the opposition leader
• 7 June and the following days – Series of public demonstrations concerning Cyprus dispute
• 20 July- Partial mobilization after the revolution in Iraq

Deaths

• 3 January – Cafer Tayyar Eğilmez (born in 1877), former general
• 25 January – Cemil Topuzlu (born in 1868), one of the pioneers of modern medicine
• 10 February – Nezihe Muhiddin, female activist, journalist
• 28 February – Zeki Üngör[2] (born in 1880), musician
• 15 July – Cemil Cahit Toydemir (born in 1883), former government minister (15th government of Turkey)
• 1 November – Yahya Kemal Beyatlı (born in 1884), poet

Births

• 9 January – Mehmet Ali Ağca, assassin
• 16 January – Ayşenur İslam, government minister
• 1 April – Banu Alkan, actress
• 6 May – Haluk Ulusoy, the former president of Turkish Football Federation
• 9 August – Muazzez Ersoy (Hatice Yıldız Levent), singer
• 11 September- Altan Tan, writer

Gallery

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  Celal Bayar
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  Adnan Menderes
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  İsmet İnönü
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  Cafer Tayyar Eğilmez
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  Cemil Topuzlu
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  Yahya Kemal Beyatlı

References

1. Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 136–140
2. Biography page (in Turkish)