1956 in Turkey

← 1955 1954 1953 1956 in Turkey → 1957 1958 1959
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	List of years in Turkey

Events in the year 1956 in Turkey.^[1]

• 10th Parliament of Turkey

• President – Celal Bayar
• Prime Minister – Adnan Menderes
• Leader of the opposition – İsmet İnönü

• Ruling party – Democrat Party (DP)
• Main opposition – Republican People's Party (CHP)

• 22nd government of Turkey

• 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

• 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

• 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

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  Celal Bayar
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  Adnan Menderes
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  İsmet İnönü
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  Hatı Çırpan
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  Cemil Cahit Toydemir
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  Meral Akşener

• Turkey at the 1956 Summer Olympics
• Turkey at the 1956 Winter Olympics