1926 in Turkey

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Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1900s 1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	List of years in Turkey

Events in the year 1926 in Turkey.

Parliament

• 2nd Parliament of Turkey

Incumbents

• President – Kemal Atatürk
• Prime Minister – İsmet İnönü

Ruling party and the main opposition

• Ruling party –Republican People's Party (CHP)

Cabinet

• 4th government of Turkey

Events

• 1 January –Turkey began using international calendar and timing instead of the traditional one
• 17 February – Civil code
• 1 March – Modern criminal code
• 18 March – Earthquake in Antalya
• 11 April – Partial mobilization as a precaution after a speech of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini
• 19 April – Modern Cabotage law
• 22 April –Modern Obligations code
• 29 May – Modern Commertial code
• 5 June – Treaty concerning the future of Mosul (Which was a part of Turkey at the end of World War I but annexed by the United Kingdom during the armistice day follawing the war.)
• 15 June – A plot to assassinate Mustafa Kemal was uncovered in İzmir
• 20 June – Crisis between the prime minister İsmet İnönü and the special court abuut the court's right to arrest of Kazım Karabekir who was a MP. (Mustafa Kemal mediated and the crisis ended on the 5th of July)
• 2 August – The French S.S. Lotus collided with the Turkish S.S. Bozkurt.
• 6 October – First airplane factory in Kayseri
• 12 October – Lotus issue was brought to international courts (see 2 August)

Births

• 15 February – Doğan Güreş, chief of staff
• 28 February – Erol Taş, actor
• 6 June – Erdal İnönü, physics professor, politician
• 22 August – Ümit Yaşar Oğuzcan, poet
• 5 September – Süleyman Seba longest presiding Chairman of Beşiktaş J.K. sports club
• 29 October – Necmettin Erbakan, prime minister (54th government of Turkey)

Deaths

• 12 July – Ziya Hurşit (born in 1892), politician
• 13 July – Rüştü Pasha (born in 1872), reitired general and politician
• 26 August – Mehmet Cavit Bey (born in 1875), politician, economist
• 26 August – Nazım Bey (born in 1970), MD and politician

Gallery

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  Kemal Atatürk

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  İsmet İnönü

• KazimKarabekirPasha.jpg

  Kazım Karabekir

• Erol Taş 1964.jpg

  Erol Taş

• Necmettin-Erbakan.jpg

  Necmettin Erbakan

• Ziyahursit.jpg

  Ziya Hurşit

• Rushdi Pasha.jpg

  Rüştü Pasha

• Doktor Nâzim Bey.png

  Nazım Bey