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Events in the year 1956 in Turkey.[1]
Parliament
Incumbents
Ruling party and the main opposition
- Ruling party – Democrat Party (DP)
 - Main opposition – Republican People's Party (CHP)
 
Cabinet
Events
- 20 February – The magnitude 5.8 Eskişehir earthquake affected the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), causing moderate damage and four deaths.[2]
 - 23 February – Polemics in the parliament concerning the 6/7 September 1955 event (Istanbul pogrom)
 - 1 March – In Istanbul the previously common seat of the governor and the mayor was split
 - 8 April – Opening date of Seyhan Dam and hydroelectric plant, the biggest plant (in 1950s)
 - 10 April – 625 metres (2,051 ft) Birecik Bridge over the Fırat River in service
 - 8 July – Three opposition parties issued a common statement
 - 26 October – Turkey joined the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA
 
Births
- 1 January – Mehdi Eker, government minister
 - 6 February – Nazan Öncel, singer
 - 9 February – Oktay Vural, politician
 - 1 May – Coşkun Aral, journalist
 - 1 June – İdris Naim Şahin, former government minister
 - 8 July – Meral Akşener, vice speaker of the parliament
 - 24 July – Mehmet Ali Aydınlar, former president of the Turkish Football Federation
 
Deaths
- 12 January – Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı (born in 1910), poet
 - 18 January – Makbule Atadan (born in 1885), Atatürk’s sister
 - 21 March – Hatı Çırpan (born in 1890), first female villager MP
 - 15 July – Cemil Cahit Toydemir (born in 1883), a retired general who participated in the Turkish War of Independence
 - 7 December – Reşat Nuri Güntekin (born in 1889), novelist
 - 26 December – Ercüment Ekrem Talu (born in 1886), journalist
 
Gallery
Celal Bayar
Adnan Menderes
İsmet İnönü
Hatı Çırpan
Cemil Cahit Toydemir
Meral Akşener
See also
References
- ↑ Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, Istanbul, 1998, pp. 132–134
 - ↑ National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS), Significant Earthquake Database, National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA, doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K
 
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