1947 in Turkey

Parliament

• 8th Parliament of Turkey

  Incumbents

• President – İsmet İnönü
• Prime Minister
• Leader of the opposition

  Ruling party and the main opposition

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

  Cabinet

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, retired military officer
• 6 March – İhsan Eryavuz, former government minister and businessman
• 27 July – Cemal Nadir Güler, caricaturist
• 3 December -Mehmet Atıf Ateşdağlı, retired military officer

  Gallery