1945 in Turkey

Events in the year 1945 in Turkey.

Parliament

 * 7th Parliament of Turkey

Incumbents

 * President – İsmet İnönü
 * Prime Minister – Şükrü Saracoğlu

Ruling party

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

Cabinet

 * 14th government of Turkey

Events

 * 3 January – End of diplomatic relations with Japan.
 * 10 January – Ottoman Turkish wording of the constitution was changed to modern Turkish (to be reverted in 1952)
 * 23 February – Declaration of war against Germany and Japan
 * 12 June – Motion with four signatures (Dörtlü takrir) by Celal Bayar, Adnan Menderes, Refik Koraltan and Fuat Köprülü. Serious opposition in CHP
 * 26 June – Turkey joined the United Nations
 * 5 September – National Development Party was founded
 * 21 October – Census (population 18,790,174)
 * 20 November – Earthquake in Van

Births

 * 8 January – Kadir Topbaş, politician and architect (d. 2021)
 * 5 April – Cem Karaca, singer (d. 2004)
 * 20 June – Murat Sökmenoğlu, politician
 * 22 June – Yaşar Nuri Öztürk, theologist and politician
 * 15 November – Ferdi Tayfur, singer
 * 20 November – Emel Sayın, singer
 * 30 November – Ayşen Gruda, theatre actress

Deaths

 * 9 January – Osman Cemal Kaygılı (born in 1890), writer
 * 27 March – Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil (born in 1866) writer
 * 28 June – Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu (born in 1879), journalist
 * 22 September – Mürsel Bakü (born in 1881), retired general