1945 in Turkey

Events in the year 1945 in Turkey.^[1]

• 7th Parliament of Turkey

• President – İsmet İnönü
• Prime Minister – Şükrü Saracoğlu

• Ruling party – Republican People's Party (CHP)

• 14th government of Turkey

• 3 January – End of diplomatic relations with Japan.
• 10 January – Ottoman Turkish wording of the constitution was changed to modern Turkish (to be reverted in 1952)
• 23 February – Declaration of war against Germany and Japan
• 12 June – Motion with four signatures (Turkish: Dörtlü takrir) by Celal Bayar, Adnan Menderes, Refik Koraltan and Fuat Köprülü. Serious opposition in CHP
• 26 June – Turkey joined the United Nations
• 5 September – National Development Party was founded^[2]
• 21 October – Census (population 18,790,174)
• 20 November – Earthquake in Van

• 8 January – Kadir Topbaş, politician and architect (d. 2021)
• 5 April – Cem Karaca, singer (d. 2004)
• 20 June – Murat Sökmenoğlu, politician
• 22 June – Yaşar Nuri Öztürk, theologist and politician
• 15 November – Ferdi Tayfur, singer
• 20 November – Emel Sayın, singer
• 30 November – Ayşen Gruda, theatre actress

• 9 January – Osman Cemal Kaygılı (born in 1890), writer
• 27 March – Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil (born in 1866) writer
• 28 June – Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu (born in 1879), journalist
• 22 September – Mürsel Bakü (born in 1881), retired general

• Şükrü Saracoğlu
• Celal Bayar
• Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil
• Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu
• Mürsel Bakü
• Emel Sayın