1946 in Turkey

Events in the year 1946 in Turkey.

Parliament

 * 7th Parliament of Turkey (up to 5 August)
 * 8th Parliament of Turkey

Incumbents

 * President – İsmet İnönü
 * Prime Minister
 * Şükrü Saracoğlu ( up to 7 August)
 * Recep Peker (from 7 August)


 * Leader of the opposition
 * Celal Bayar (from 7 January)

Ruling party and the main opposition

 * Ruling party – Republican People's Party (CHP)
 * Main opposition – Democrat Party (DP)

Cabinet

 * 14th government of Turkey (up to 7 August)
 * 15th government of Turkey (from 7 August)

Events

 * 7 January – Democrat Party (DP) was founded
 * 29 March – Treaty with Iraq
 * 5 April – USS Missouri (BB-63) carried the remains of the Turkish Ambassador to the United States, Münir Ertegün, from New York to İstanbul
 * 31 May – 1946 Varto–Hınıs earthquake
 * 21 July – General elections (CHP 396 seats, DP 61 seats, Independents7 seats)
 * 8 August – Soviet Union proposed to change the status of the straits
 * 21 October – Turkey rejected Soviet proposal
 * 7 September – Devaluation
 * 18 December – DP boycotted the parliament (ended on 26 December)

Births

 * 12 February – Ajda Pekkan, actress and singer
 * 14 February – Kemal Unakıtan, politician
 * 4 April – Ercan Yazgan, theatre actor
 * 19 April – Duygu Asena, journalist
 * 5 May – Aydın Menderes, Adnan Menderes’ son, politician
 * 24 May – Tansu Çiller, prime minister (50th, 51st, and (52nd government of Turkey)
 * 20 June – Zülfü Livaneli, musician, politician and journalist
 * 3 August – Cahit Berkay, musician
 * 10 November – Fikret Kızılok, singer
 * 14 December – Oral Çalışlar, politician and journalist

Deaths

 * 9 July – Nevzat Tandoğan (born 1894, suicide) – governor of Ankara
 * 26 November – Saffet Arıkan (born 1888), former government minister