1940 in Turkey
Events in the year 1940 in Turkey.[1]
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Parliament
    
    
Incumbents
    
    
Ruling party and the main opposition
    
- Ruling party – Republican People's Party (CHP)
Cabinet
    
    
Events
    
- 18 January – Law of national prevention (Milli Korunma Kanunu) a law which authorizes the government to control the economy to overcome the war time hardships
- 17 April – The law of Village Institutes
- 29 June – Turco German trade agreement
- 20 October – Census (Population17,820,950)
- 25 November – Martial law in the European part of Turkey
- 20 December – Earthquake in the East Anatolia
Births
    
- 1 January – Alp Yalman, businessman
- 23 January – Dinç Bilgin, businessman, media owner
- 27 January – Ahmet Kurtcebe Alptemoçin, government minister
- 15 February – İsmail Cem İpekçi, government minister
- 23 February – Kamer Genç, politician
- 10 July – Rıfat Çalışkan, cyclist
- 29 July – Aytaç Yalman, general
- 1 September – Yaşar Büyükanıt, chief of staff
- 6 September – Mesut Yılmaz, prime minister (48th, 53rd and 55th government of Turkey)
- 18 October – Onur Öymen, politician, diplomat
- 20 November – Ediz Hun, actor
Deaths
    
- 19 March – Besim Ömer Akalın (born in 1862), MD and politician
- 18 April – Lütfi Müfit Özdeş (born in 1874), military officer
- 13 October – Muhittin Akyüz (born in 1879), military officer, diplomat and politician
Gallery
    
 İsmet İnönü İsmet İnönü
 Refik Saydam Refik Saydam
 Kamer Genç Kamer Genç
 Yaşar Büyükanıt Yaşar Büyükanıt
 Onur Öymen Onur Öymen
 Besim Ömer Akalın Besim Ömer Akalın
 Lütfi Müfit Özdeş Lütfi Müfit Özdeş
 Muhittin Akyüz Muhittin Akyüz
References
    
- Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 87–88
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