1944 in Turkey
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Events in the year 1944 in Turkey.[1]
Parliament
[edit]Incumbents
[edit]Ruling party and the main opposition
[edit]- Ruling party – Republican People's Party (CHP)
Cabinet
[edit]Events
[edit]- 18 January – Marine accident in Bandırma. 24 deaths
- 1 February – 1944 Bolu–Gerede earthquake (north west Anatolia) 3959 deaths
- 31 March – Turkish cargo ship Krom was torpedoed (Although the freight was wheat, the name of the ship was Krom (Chromium) and it was probably torpedoed because it was assumed that its freight might be chromium to Germany) [2]
- 4 June – End of Ottoman Public Debt Administration (after 90 years)
- 2 August – End of diplomatic relations with Germany
- 6 October – The 1944 Gulf of Edremit–Ayvacik earthquake triggers a tsunami and kills at least 73 people.[3]
- 7 December – Turkey joined the International Aviation Agreement
Births
[edit]- 15 March – Nebahat Çehre, actress
- 4 April – Toktamış Ateş, academic
- 17 August – Semra Sezer, teacher, wife of former president Ahmet Necdet Sezer
- 19 September – İsmet Özel, poet
- 12 October – Abdülkadir Aksu, politician
- 14 October – Şerif Gören, movie director
- 11 November – Kemal Sunal, actor
- 22 November – Osman Korutürk, diplomat and politician
- 17 December – İlhan Erdost, publisher
Deaths
[edit]- 14 January – Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, poet
- 8 March – Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar, writer
- 23 August – Abdülmecid II, caliph and a member of the Ottoman dynasty (died in exile)
- 11 November – Münir Ertegün, diplomat
Gallery
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İsmet İnönü
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Şükrü Saracoğlu
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Abdülmecid II
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Münir Ertegün
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Nebahat Çehre
References
[edit]- ^ Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 93–94
- ^ "Ottoman Studies by Adiddin Temizer and Selçuk Özkan" (PDF) (in Turkish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-10. Retrieved 2014-10-07.
- ^ Altınok, Y.; Alpar, B.; Yaltırak, C.; Pınar, A.; Özer, N. (2012). "The earthquakes and related tsunamis of October 6,1944 and March 7, 1867; NE Aegean Sea". Natural Hazards. 60 (1): 3–25. Bibcode:2012NatHa..60....3A. doi:10.1007/s11069-011-9949-7.