1927 in Turkey

Events in the year 1927 in Turkey.

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
 * 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