1930 in Turkey

Events in the year 1930 in Turkey.

Parliament

 * 3rd Parliament of Turkey

Incumbents

 * President – Kemal Atatürk
 * Prime Minister – İsmet İnönü
 * Leader of the opposition – Fethi Okyar (12 August −17 November)

Ruling party and the main opposition

 * Ruling party – Republican People's Party (CHP)
 * Main opposition – Liberal Republican Party (SCF) (12 August-12 November)

Cabinet

 * 5th government of Turkey (up to 27 September)
 * 6th government of Turkey (from 27 September)

Events

 * 3 April – Women's suffrage (in local elections) was legalized
 * 7 May – The 7.1 Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Up to three-thousand people were killed.
 * 10 June – Agreement between Turkey and Greece concerning the population exchange problems in the 1920s.
 * 12 August – Liberal Republican Party (SCF) was founded
 * 26 September – People Republic Party, a second opposition party was founded
 * 27 September – New government
 * 17 November – SCF dissolved itself
 * 23 December – Menemen Incident in which a group of reactionaries who opposed Atatürk's reforms killed Mustafa Fehmi Kubilay a young lieutenant.

Births

 * 26 February – Orhan Karaveli, journalist and writer
 * 2 March – Neşe Aybey, miniaturist
 * 23 April – Şarık Tara, civil engineer and contractor
 * 17 June – Adile Naşit, theatre player
 * 1 September – Turgut Özakman, writer
 * 23 September – Çelik Gülersoy, lawyer and historical preservationist
 * 9 October – Rahmi Koç, industrialist
 * 30 December – Dündar Ali Osman, 45th Head of the House of Osman (in Syria)

Deaths

 * 26 February – Ahmet Rıza (born in 1858), politician
 * 30 March – Hodja Ali Rıza (born in 1858), painter
 * 8 August – Alaaddin Koval (born in 1878), general
 * 23 December – Mustafa Fehmi Kubilay (born in 1906), lieutenant (lynched)