1927 in Turkey

← 1926 1925 1924 1927 in Turkey → 1928 1929 1930
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	List of years in Turkey

Events in the year 1927 in Turkey.^[1]

Parliament

• 2nd Parliament of Turkey (up to 1 September)
• 3rd Parliament of Turkey (from 1 September)

Incumbents

• President – Kemal Atatürk
• Prime Minister – İsmet İnönü

Ruling party and the main opposition

• Ruling party – Republican People's Party (CHP)

Cabinet

• 4th government of Turkey (up to 1 November)
• 5th government of Turkey (from 1 November)

Events

• 18 January – United States senate rejected the Treaty of Lausanne
• 1 February – General elections
• 7 March – End of the Independence Tribunals
• 1 July – President Kemal Atatürk visited Istanbul. First visit after 1917. (To establish Ankara as the new capital, he had purposely delayed his visit.)
• 27 August – A group of gangs led Hacı Sami entered Turkey via Samos (in Greece) to create chaos, but they were arrested
• 7 September – International court supported Turkish point of view on the Bozkurt–Lotus case (see 1926 in Turkey). Turkish lawyer Mahmut Esat was later surnamed Bozkurt^[2]
• 15 October – Kemal Atatürk in a six-day speech, called Nutuk, summarized the events in Turkish War of Independence
• 19 October – Kemal Atatürk’s will. CHP was the main beneficiary
• 28 October – Census (population 13,648,270)
• 30 October – Maintenance of the famous battleship Yavuz began.
• 3 November – New term of the parliament and the new government of İsmet İnönü
• 24 November - Statue of Victory, a monument in Ankara about the Turkish War of Independence (There will be others in the following years)
• 26 December – Marine accident The ship Sevinç sank

Births

• 3 January – Nazmiye Demirel, wife Süleyman Demirel (former president)
• 28 January – Eşref Kolçak, actor
• 17 February – Ali Naili Erdem, lawyer and politician
• 27 March – Coşkun Kırca, academic, politician
• 22 June – Çetin Altan, journalist
• 13 July – Orhan Birgit, lawyer, journalist and politician
• 10 August – Nejat Uygur, theatre actor
• 13 October – Turgut Özal, president (1989–1993)
• 8 November – İlter Türkmen, diplomat
• 10 November – Vedat Dalokay, architect

Deaths

• 4 January – Süleyman Nazif (born in 1870), poet
• 2 June – Hüseyin Avni Lifij (born in 1886), painter
• 13 July - Mimar Kemaleddin Bey (born in 1871), architect

Gallery

• 
  Kemal Atatürk
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  İsmet İnönü
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  Süleyman Nazif
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  Hüseyin Avni Lifij (self portrait)
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  Mimar Kemalettin

References

1. Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 36–39
2. Law page (in Turkish)