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Parliament
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Incumbents
3
Ruling party and the main opposition
4
Cabinet
5
Events
6
Births
7
Deaths
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Gallery
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References
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1939 in Turkey
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List of events
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1938
1937
1936
1939
in
Turkey
→
1940
1941
1942
Centuries:
20th
21st
Decades:
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
See also:
List of years in Turkey
Events in the year
1939 in Turkey
.
[1]
Parliament
[
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]
5th Parliament of Turkey
(up to 3 April)
6th Parliament of Turkey
Incumbents
[
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]
President
–
İsmet İnönü
Prime Minister
Celal Bayar
Refik Saydam
Ruling party and the main opposition
[
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]
Ruling party –
Republican People's Party
(CHP)
Cabinet
[
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]
10th government of Turkey
(up to 25 January)
11th government of Turkey
(25 January – 3 April)
12th government of Turkey
(from 3 April)
Events
[
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25 January – Prime minister Celal Bayar resigned. İsmet İnönü appointed Refik Saydam as the
new prime minister
*26 March – General elections
26 June –
Hatay Republic
decided to merge to Turkey
23 July – The last of the French military troops left Hatay
22 September –
Dikili
Earthquake.46 deaths
19 October – Defensive alliance with United Kingdom and France
27/28 December – The 7.8 M
w
Erzincan earthquake
shakes eastern
Turkey
with a maximum
Mercalli intensity
of XII (
Extreme
), causing $20 million in damage, and leaving 32,700–32,968 dead.
Births
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10 February –
Enver Ören
, business man, newspaper owner
11 February –
Okay Temiz
, musician
10 June –
Ahmet Taner Kışlalı
, academic, politician
25 July –
Filiz Dinçmen
, first female ambassador of Turkey
31 October –
Çiğdem Talu
, lyricist
2 December –
Özcan Arkoç
, goalkeeper
27 December –
Leyla Sayar
, actress
Deaths
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]
19 May –
Ahmet Ağaoğlu
(born in 1869), journalist
25 September –
Ali Saip Ursavaş
(1887), politician
20 December –
Yakup Şevki Subaşı
(born in 1876), retired general
25 December –
Ömer Halis Bıyıktay
(born in 1883), retired general
Gallery
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]
İsmet İnönü
Celal Bayar
Refik Saydam
Ahmet Ağaoğlu
Ali Saip Ursavaş
Yakup Şevki
Ömer Halis Bıyıktay
References
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^
Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 82–87
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1939 in Europe
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, colonies
and other territories
Åland
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1939 in Asia
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Afghanistan
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Iraq
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