1946 in Turkey

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Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
See also:	List of years in Turkey

Events in the year 1946 in Turkey.

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 Auguat)

15th government of Turkey (from 7 August)

Events

• 7 January – -Democrat Party (DP) was founded
• 29 March – Treaty with Iraq
• 5 April – USS Missouri (BB-63) carried the remains of the Turkish Ambassador to the United States, Münir Ertegün from New york to İstanbul
• 31 May – Earthquake around van, East Anatolia
• 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 the 26th of 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
• 20 June – Zülfü Livaneli, musician, politician and journalist
• 3 August – Cahit Berkay, musician
• 19 August – Fedon, singer
• 23 October – Tansu Çiller, prime minister (50th, 51st, and (52nd government of Turkey)
• 10 November – Fikret Kızılok, singer
• 14 December – Oral Çalışlar, politician and journalist

Deaths

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

Gallery

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  İsmet İnönü

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  Şükrü Saracoğlu

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  Recep Peker

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  Celal Bayar

• Münir Ertegün.jpg

  Münir Ertegün

• Ajda Pekkan 01.jpg

  Ajda Pekkan

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  Zülfü Livaneli

• Cahit-Berkay.jpg

  Cahit Berkay

• Abdullah Nevzat Bey Tandoğan.jpg

  Nevzat Tandoğan

• Saffet Bey Arıkan.jpg

  Saffet Arıkan