1946 in Turkey explained

Events in the year 1946 in Turkey.^[1]

Parliament

• 7th Parliament of Turkey (up to 5 August)
• 8th Parliament of Turkey

Incumbents

• • President – İsmet İnönü Prime Minister

Şükrü Saracoğlu (up to 7 August)

Recep Peker (from 7 August)

• Leader of the opposition

Celal Bayar (from 7 January)

Ruling party and the main opposition

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

Cabinet

14th government of Turkey (up to 7 August)

15th government of Turkey (from 7 August)

Events

• 7 January – Democrat Party (DP) was founded
• 29 March – Treaty with Iraq
• 5 April – carried the remains of the Turkish Ambassador to the United States, Münir Ertegün, from New York to İstanbul
• 31 May – 1946 Varto–Hınıs earthquake
• 21 July – General elections (CHP 396 seats, DP 61 seats, Independents7 seats)
• 8 August – Soviet Union proposed to change the status of the straits
• 21 October – Turkey rejected Soviet proposal
• 7 September – Devaluation
• 18 December – DP boycotted the parliament (ended on 26 December)

Births

• 12 February – Ajda Pekkan, actress and singer
• 14 February – Kemal Unakıtan, politician
• 4 April – Ercan Yazgan, theatre actor
• 19 April – Duygu Asena, journalist
• 5 May – Aydın Menderes, Adnan Menderes’ son, politician
• 24 May – Tansu Çiller, prime minister (50th, 51st, and (52nd government of Turkey)^[2]
• 20 June – Zülfü Livaneli, musician, politician and journalist
• 3 August – Cahit Berkay, musician
• 10 November – Fikret Kızılok, singer
• 14 December – Oral Çalışlar, politician and journalist

Deaths

• 9 July – Nevzat Tandoğan (born 1894, suicide) – governor of Ankara
• 26 November – Saffet Arıkan (born 1888), former government minister

References

1. Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 97–100
2. Book: Jalalzai . Farida . Shattered, Cracked, Or Firmly Intact?: Women and the Executive Glass Ceiling Worldwide . 28 March 2013 . OUP USA . 978-0-19-994353-1 . 214 . en.