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Events in the year 1956 in Turkey.[1]

Parliament[edit]

Incumbents[edit]

Ruling party and the main opposition[edit]

Cabinet[edit]

Events[edit]

  • 20 February – The magnitude 5.8 Eskişehir earthquake affected the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), causing moderate damage and four deaths.[2]
  • 23 February – Polemics in the parliament concerning the 6/7 September 1965 event (Istanbul pogrom)
  • 1 March – In İstanbul the previously common seat of the governor and the mayor was split
  • 8 April – Opening date of Seyhan Dam and hydroelectric plant, the biggest plant (in 1950s)
  • 10 April – 625 metres (2,051 ft) Birecik Bridge over the Fırat River in service
  • 8 July – Three opposition parties issued a common statement
  • 26 October – Turkey joined the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA

Births[edit]

  • 1 January – Mehdi Eker, government minister
  • 6 February – Nazan Öncel, singer
  • 9 February – Oktay Vural, politician
  • 26 April – Emrehan Halıcı, politician
  • 1 May – Coşkun Aral, journalist
  • 1 June – İdris Naim Şahin, former government minister
  • 8 July – Meral Akşener, vice speaker of the parliament
  • 24 July – Mehmet Ali Aydınlar, former president of the Turkish Football Federation

Deaths[edit]

  • 12 January – Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı (born in 1910), poet
  • 18 January – Makbule Atadan (born in 1885), Atatürk’s sister
  • 21 March – Hatı Çırpan (born in 1890), first female villager MP
  • 15 July – Cemil Cahit Toydemir (born in 1883), a retired general who participated in the Turkish War of Independence
  • 7 December – Reşat Nuri Güntekin (born in 1889), novelist
  • 26 December – Ercüment Ekrem Talu (born in 1886), journalist

Gallery[edit]

  • Celal Bayar

  • Adnan Menderes

  • İsmet İnönü

  • Mehdi Eker

  • Hatı Çırpan

  • Cemil Cahit Toydemir

See also[edit]

  • Turkey at the 1956 Summer Olympics
  • Turkey at the 1956 Winter Olympics

References[edit]

  1. ^ Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 132–134
  2. ^ National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS), Significant Earthquake Database, National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA, doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K