1952 in Turkey

Events in the year 1952 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

 * 20th government of Turkey

Events

 * 3 January – 1952 Hasankale earthquake
 * 18 February – Turkey became a member of NATO
 * 16 June – The ban on the female Ottoman dynasty members to enter Turkey was lifted
 * 20 August – Günseli Başar won the European Beauty pageant
 * 22 November – Attempted assassination of journalist Ahmet Emin Yalman.
 * 24 December – Upon Fuat Köprülü's proposal, the Turkish wording of the constitıion was partially changed to Ottoman Turkish

Births

 * 8 April – Ahmet Piriştina, politician
 * 20 April – Erol Küçükbakırcı, cyclist
 * 11 May – Nur Batur, journalist
 * 23 May – Hayati Yazıcı, politician
 * 1 June – Şenol Güneş, football coach
 * 1 June – Ali Müfit Gürtuna, politician
 * 9 June – Bülent Ersoy, singer
 * 2 September – Salih Memecan, caricaturist
 * 28 June – Enis Batur, writer and publisher

Deaths

 * 5 February – Ömer Fevzi Eyüboğlu (born in 1884), journalist
 * 13 March – Ömer Rıza Doğrul (born 1893), publisher and politician
 * 16 May – Memduh Şevket Esendal (born in 1884), writer
 * 28 December – Kerim Erim (born 1894), mathematician and physicist.