List of events
Events in the year 1927 in Turkey.
Parliament
Incumbents
Ruling party and the main opposition
Cabinet
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
Gallery