1952 in Turkey

Events in the year 1952 in Turkey.^[1]

• 9th 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)

• 20th government of Turkey

• 3 January – 1952 Hasankale earthquake
• 18 February – Turkey became a member of NATO
• 16 June – The ban on the female Ottoman dynasty members to enter Turkey was lifted
• 20 August – Günseli Başar won the European Beauty pageant
• 22 November – Attempted assassination of journalist Ahmet Emin Yalman.
• 24 December – Upon Fuat Köprülü's proposal, the Turkish wording of the constitıion was partially changed to Ottoman Turkish

• 8 April – Ahmet Piriştina, politician
• 20 April – Erol Küçükbakırcı, cyclist
• 11 May – Nur Batur, journalist
• 23 May – Hayati Yazıcı, politician
• 1 June – Şenol Güneş, football coach
• 1 June – Ali Müfit Gürtuna, politician
• 9 June – Bülent Ersoy, singer
• 2 September – Salih Memecan, caricaturist
• 28 June – Enis Batur, writer and publisher

• 5 February – Ömer Fevzi Eyüboğlu (born in 1884), journalist
• 13 March – Ömer Rıza Doğrul (born 1893), publisher and politician
• 16 May – Memduh Şevket Esendal (born in 1884), writer
• 28 December – Kerim Erim (born 1894), mathematician and physicist.

• Celal Bayar
• Adnan Menderes
• Fuat Köprülü
• Şenol Güneş
• Bülent Ersoy

• Turkey at the 1952 Summer Olympics