1927 in Turkey
# 1927 in Turkey

Events in the year 1927 in Turkey.

## Parliament

* 2nd Parliament of Turkey (up to 1 September)
* 3rd Parliament of Turkey (from 1 September)

## 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 (up to 1 November)
* 5th government of Turkey (from 1 November)

## Events

* 18 January – United States senate rejected the Treaty of Lausanne
* 1 February – General elections
* 7 March – End of the Independence Tribunals
* 1 July – President Kemal Atatürk visited Istanbul. First visit after 1917. (To establish Ankara as the new capital, he had purposely delayed his visit.)
* 27 August – A group of gangs led Hacı Sami entered Turkey via Samos (in Greece) to create chaos, but they were arrested
* 7 September – International court supported Turkish point of view on the Bozkurt–Lotus case (see 1926 in Turkey). Turkish lawyer Mahmut Esat was later surnamed Bozkurt
* 15 October – Kemal Atatürk in a six-day speech, called Nutuk, summarized the events in Turkish War of Independence
* 19 October – Kemal Atatürk’s will. CHP was the main beneficiary
* 28 October – Census (population 13,648,270)
* 30 October – Maintenance of the famous battleship Yavuz began.
* 3 November – New term of the parliament and the new government of İsmet İnönü
* 24 November - Statue of Victory, a monument in Ankara about the Turkish War of Independence (There will be others in the following years)
* 26 December – Marine accident The ship Sevinç sank

## Births

* 3 January – Nazmiye Demirel, wife Süleyman Demirel (former president)
* 28 January – Eşref Kolçak, actor
* 27 March – Coşkun Kırca, academic, politician
* 22 June – Çetin Altan, journalist
* 13 July – Orhan Birgit, lawyer, journalist and politician
* 10 August – Nejat Uygur, theatre actor
* 13 October – Turgut Özal, president (1989–1993)
* 8 November – İlter Türkmen, diplomat
* 10 November – Vedat Dalokay, architect

## Deaths

* 4 January – Süleyman Nazif (born in 1870), poet
* 2 June – Hüseyin Avni Lifij (born in 1886), painter
* 13 July - Mimar Kemaleddin Bey (born in 1871), architect

## Gallery

* Kemal Atatürk
* İsmet İnönü
* Süleyman Nazif
* Hüseyin Avni Lifij (self portrait)
* Mimar Kemalettin
