Events in the year 1926 in Turkey.[1]
Parliament
Incumbents
Ruling party and the main opposition
Cabinet
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 – A magnitude 6.9 earthquake, with a maximum intensity of VIII (Severe), occurs in the Mediterranean Sea southwest of Kaş in the Antalya Province. Some people are killed.
- 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 Commercial 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 about 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)
- 22 October – The 6.0 Ms Kars earthquake occurs with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). The shock was close to the border and affected both Turkey and Armenia, leaving 360 people dead
Births
Deaths
- 12 July – Ziya Hurşit (born in 1892), politician
- 13 July – Rüştü Pasha (born in 1872), retired general and politician
- 26 August – Mehmet Cavit Bey (born in 1875), politician, economist
- 26 August – Nazım Bey (born in 1970), MD and politician
Gallery
References
- ^ Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 30–36