1951 in Turkey

Events in the year 1951 in Turkey.

Parliament

 * 9th Parliament of Turkey

Incumbents

 * President – Celal Bayar
 * Prime Minister – Adnan Menderes
 * Leader of the opposition – İsmet İnönü

Ruling party and the main opposition

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

Cabinet

 * 19th government of Turkey (up to 9 March)
 * 20th government of Turkey (from 9 March)

Events

 * 21 January – First convoy of wounded Turkish Brigade soldiers from Korean War arrived in Turkey
 * 26 June – The corpse of the reformist grandvizier Mithat Pasha, who was assassinated in Saudi Arabia in 1883, was buried in Istanbul
 * 2 July – Presidential yacht MV Savarona was transferred to the Turkish Naval Forces
 * 8 August – Halkevleri, a state sponsored enlightenment project, was ended
 * 13 August – 1951 Kurşunlu earthquake
 * 17 September – Byelections
 * 1 October – Turkish Air Force Academy was founded

Births

 * 16 February – Ferhan Şensoy theatre actor
 * 5 April, Nedim Gürsel, writer
 * 23 July, Leman Sam, singer
 * 6 September – Melih Kibar, composer
 * 14 December – Nükhet Ruacan, jazz singer
 * 16 December – Aykut Barka, earth scientist specialized in earthquakes


 * Metin Yurdanur, sculptor

Deaths

 * 3 January – Ali Münif Yeğenağa (born in 1874), politician (Ottoman Empire and Turkey)
 * 26 July – Ali Sami Yen (born in 1886), founder of Galatasaray sports club
 * 20 August – İzzettin Çalışlar (born in 1882), retired general, who participated in the Turkish War of Independence
 * 31 August – Mazhar Osman Usman (born in 1884), doctor and the founder of Bakırköy Psychiatric Hospital
 * 11 December – Mustafa Muğlalı (born in 1882), retired general, who participated in the Turkish War of Independence