2024 in Turkey

Individuals and events related to 2024 in Turkey.

Ongoing

 * Purges in Turkey (2016–present)

January

 * 13 January – Turkey launches airstrikes against Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria following an attack on Turkish soldiers in Iraq which killed nine.
 * 23 January – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey approves Sweden's NATO membership bid.
 * 25 January – President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan signed and approved the proposal containing Sweden's accession protocol to NATO.
 * 28 January – 2024 Istanbul church shooting, one person killed and one other injured during a shooting by two armed terrorists at the Church of Santa Maria in Istanbul.

February

 * 1 February – A gunman takes seven hostages at a factory owned by U.S. company Procter & Gamble in Gebze, Kocaeli Province, in an apparent protest against the war in Gaza. The perpetrator is later arrested unharmed and all the hostages are freed.
 * 6 February – Two Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front gunmen open fire outside the Istanbul Justice Palace, wounding six people, before being killed during a shootout with police.
 * 10 February – Gunmen open fire at a campaign event in the Küçükçekmece district municipality of Istanbul for AK Party mayoral candidate Aziz Yeniay, critically injuring one person. Seventeen people are arrested in connection with the attack.
 * 13 February – Around ten people are believed trapped underground after a landslide near the Çöpler mine in İliç, Erzincan Province. A rescue operation is ongoing.
 * 25 February – Turkey launches an airstrike in northern Iraq, killing four alleged PKK members.

March

 * 5 March – One person is killed in Bursa Province following a magnitude 4.9 earthquake that had its epicenter in Çanakkale Province.
 * 15 March – A migrant boat sinks near Gökçeada in the Aegean Sea, killing 22 people including seven children. Two people are rescued by the Turkish Coast Guard off Eceabat, Çanakkale Province while two others manage to swim to shore.
 * 20–21 March – 2024 World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships at Antalya
 * 31 March –
 * 2024 Turkish local elections
 * 2024 Istanbul mayoral election: Ekrem İmamoğlu is re-elected as mayor of Istanbul.

April

 * 2 April:
 * Gayrettepe nightclub fire – A fire at a nightclub in Beşiktaş, Istanbul kills at least 29 people.
 * Authorities annul the victory of DEM candidate Abdullah Zeydan in the mayoral election in Van and declare his rival from the AK Party the winner instead. Following public uproar and an appeal from Zeydan, the Supreme Election Board reinstates him as the winner.
 * 12 April - One person is killed and seven others are injured after a cable car falls on rocky ground due to a collapsed pylon outside Antalya. The accident also leaves 184 people stranded across the entire cable car system.
 * 18 April - A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Tokat Province, destroying several buildings there and in neighboring Yozgat Province.

May

 * 2 May – Turkey suspends all trade with Israel in response to their conduct in the war in Gaza, after previously suspending exports in a limited category of goods in April.
 * 6 May:
 * The Turkish Air Force carries out airstrikes on Iraqi Kurdistan, reportedly killing 16 PKK insurgents.
 * The Byzantine-era Chora church in Istanbul formally reopens to Muslim worshippers as a mosque.
 * 9 May – A Boeing 737 passenger aircraft belonging to Corendon Airlines makes an emergency landing at Gazipaşa–Alanya Airport after one of its tires bursts.
 * 13 May – President Erdoğan meets with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Ankara.
 * 17 May – President Erdoğan issues pardons to seven senior military officers who were sentenced to life imprisonment in 2018 for their role in the 1997 Turkish military memorandum that ousted Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan.
 * 26 May - Ten people are killed and 39 others are injured after a bus collides with three other vehicles in the Tarsus district near Mersin.
 * 31 May – Turkey launches drone strikes on Syrian Democratic Forces targets in Qamishli, Syria, killing four militants and injuring 11 civilians.

June

 * 2 June - One person is killed and eight others are injured after an apartment building collapses in Küçükçekmece, Istanbul.
 * 3 June - Mehmet Sıddık Akış, the DEM mayor of Hakkâri, is removed from office and arrested on suspicion of having links with the PKK.
 * 4 June - An SF-260D trainer aircraft of the Turkish Air Force crashes into farmland near Kayseri, killing its two pilots.
 * 21 June - 2024 Turkey wildfires – A crop fire in the border between Mardin and Diyarbakır Provinces leaves 11 people dead and ravages three settlements.
 * 28 June - The Financial Action Task Force removes Turkey from its "gray list" of countries not fully complying with measures to combat money laundering and terrorism financing.
 * 30 June:
 * Five people are killed after a propane tank explodes inside a restaurant in Izmir.
 * A riot targeting Syrian refugees in Melikgazi, Kayseri Province, leads to the arrest of 67 people.

July

 * 1 July – Seven people are killed after anti-Turkish protests break out in Turkish-occupied Northern Syria following anti-Syrian riots in Turkey a day earlier.
 * 4 July – Germany summons Turkey's ambassador in Berlin in a tit-for-tat move over footballer Merih Demiral's wolf salute gesture while celebrating a goal at the UEFA Euro 2024.
 * 9 July – A life raft carrying migrants bound for Europe sinks off the coast of Çeşme after being reportedly pushed back by Greek authorities, killing seven people.

Scheduled

 * 29 June to 7 July – 2024 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup

Holidays
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 * 1 January –	New Year's Day
 * 10 April to 12 April – Ramazan Bayramı
 * 23 April – Children's Day
 * 1 May	– Labour Day
 * 19 May – Youth and Sports Day
 * 16 June to 19 June – Kurban Bayramı
 * 15 July – Democracy and National Unity Day
 * 30 August	– Victory Day
 * 29 October – Republic Day

Arts and entertainment

 * List of Turkish films of 2024
 * List of 2024 box office number-one films in Turkey
 * List of Turkish submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
 * List of Turkish European Film Award winners and nominees

Deaths

 * 4 January – Ayla Algan, 86, singer and actress (The House of Leyla, O Hayat Benim, Binbir Gece).