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1960 In Turkey
Events in the year 1960 in Turkey. Parliament * 11th Parliament of Turkey (up to 27 May) Incumbents *President :: Celal Bayar (up to 27 May) ::Cemal Gürsel (from 27 May) *Prime Minister :: Adnan Menderes (up to 27 May) ::Cemal Gürsel (from 27 May) *Leader of the opposition :: İsmet İnönü (up to 27 May) Ruling party and the main opposition *Ruling party :: Democrat Party (DP) (up to 27 May) * Main opposition ::Republican People's Party (CHP) (up to 27 May) Cabinet * 23rd government of Turkey (up to 27 May) *24th government of Turkey (from 27 May) Events *2 April – In Yeşilhisar, because of the interference of ruling party partisans İsmet İnönü the leader of the opposition was not able to continue his election campaign * 27 April – The ruling party formed a committee (popularly called ''Sancar komisyonu'') to convict the opposition * 5 May – Demonstrations in Ankara (known as 555K) * 27 May – Coup d'état *12 June – Beşiktaş won the championship of Turki ...
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11th Parliament Of Turkey
The 11th Grand National Assembly of Turkey existed from 27 October 1957 to 27 May 1960. There were 610 MPs in the parliament. While The Democrat Party (DP) won a vast majority, the opposition was represented by the Republican People's Party (CHP) with 173 seats, the Republican Nation Party (CMP) and Liberty Party (HP) each with 4 seats and 2 Independents. Main parliamentary milestones Some of the important events in the history of the parliament are the following:Türkiye'nin 75 Yılı; Tempo Yayıncılık, İstanbul *1 November 1957– Celal Bayar was elected as the President of Turkey for the third time *25 November 1957 - Adnan Menderes of DP formed the 23rd government of Turkey *17 October 1958 - CMP merged with another party to form Republican Villagers Nation Party *24 November 1958 – HP dissolved itself (Partially merged to CHP) *17 February 1959 –Adnan Menderes survived 1959 Turkish Airlines Gatwick crash. This event briefly introduced détente in domestic policy ...
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Turkish Football League
Turkish may refer to: *a Turkic language spoken by the Turks * of or about Turkey ** Turkish language *** Turkish alphabet ** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation *** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey *** Turkish communities and minorities in the former Ottoman Empire * Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Turkey), 1299–1922, previously sometimes known as the Turkish Empire ** Ottoman Turkish, the Turkish language used in the Ottoman Empire * Turkish Airlines, an airline * Turkish music (style), a musical style of European composers of the Classical music era See also * * * Turk (other) * Turki (other) * Turkic (other) * Turkey (other) * Turkiye (other) * Turkish Bath (other) * Turkish population, the number of ethnic Turkish people in the world * Culture of Turkey * History of Turkey ** History of the Republic of Turkey The Republic of Turkey was created after the overthrow of Sultan Mehmet VI Vahdettin by the n ...
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Hasan Saka
Hasan Saka (1885 – 29 July 1960) was a Turkish politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Prime Minister of Turkey. Political career He graduated from "Mülkiye Mektebi" (School of Civil Service) in 1908. Hasan Saka started working for government in "Divan-ı Muhasebat" (Council of Accounts). He was sent to France for further education by the Ottoman government in 1909. After graduating from the School of Political Science with a Diplomacy major, he returned home to continue his prior job. He was elected as a member of the Ottoman Parliament in Istanbul at its last term and kept his position until the parliament was closed. He was elected as a member of Grand National Assembly of Turkey ( TBMM) from Trabzon at its first term on 28 January 1921. He was a member of the Turkish delegation at the Lausanne Conference . Saka was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs on 13 September 1944. He quit this position on 9 September 1947 when the entire cabinet resigned. He was ...
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Village Institutes
Village Institutes ( Turkish: ''Köy Enstitüleri'') were a group of rural schools in Turkey founded in accordance with a project led by Hasan Âli Yücel, who was the Minister of Education at the time. The project started on April 17, 1940 in order to train teachers. They were the cornerstones of the rural development projects in the post-war Turkish state. At the time there weren't many educational institutions in most villages, the institutes helped educate the rural populace. Village Institutes were established to meet the needs of the teachers of each village. Despite their short lifespan, they increased the number of primary schools in the country. They had the support of prime minister İsmet İnönü and the director general of primary education İsmail Hakkı Tonguç. Foundation and general information Students were selected among the most successful students in the villages and after taking education they went back to these villages to work as teachers because for the ...
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İsmail Hakkı Tonguç
İsmail Hakkı Tonguç (1893–1960) was a teacher and director for primary education in the Ministry of National Education of Turkey. He is considered to have deeply influenced the education program during the single party era and the Village Institutes, which trained teachers. Early life and education Tonguç was born on the 1893 in the village Atmaca in the Ottoman Empire (present-day Sokol in Bulgaria) as the oldest of eight siblings. He attended primary school in his village and high school in Silistre at the Danube river from where he graduated in 1907. After graduating he returned to his family and worked in the fields. In 1914 he was in Istanbul and after several attempts he was able to enter the teachers training school, a boarding school in Kastamonu. After one and a half years in Kastamonu, he demanded his transfer to Istanbul. Arriving in Istanbul in 1916, he learned that the name Hakki was added to his identity card which was a common practice to differentiate the ...
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Namık Gedik
Namık Gedik (1911–1960) was a Turkish physician and politician who served as the minister of interior during the mid-1950s. He was a member of the Democrat Party which was the ruling party in the period 1950–1960. He was arrested on 27 May 1960 immediately following the military coup along with his colleagues. Gedik committed suicide soon after his detention. Early life and education Gedik hailed from a large family originated from Uşak. He was born in Trabzon in 1911 when his father was serving there as a post officer. He graduated from Kabataş High School in 1930 and received a bachelor's degree in medicine from Istanbul University in 1936. Career Following graduation Gedik began to work in Çine, Aydın, as a physician. In 1942 he completed his speciality training in medicine at Haydarpaşa Hospital, Istanbul, and worked at different medical institutions in various cities until 1950 when he resigned from the medical career and joined the Democrat Party. Gedik was on ...
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İbrahim Çallı
İbrahim Çallı (13 July 1882 in Çal – 22 May 1960 in İstanbul) was a Turkish painter. He is popularly known as Çallı İbrahim. Biography İbrahim Çallı was born in Çal, Denizli. He showed early interest in painting during his primary and secondary education which he finished in his hometown and in İzmir. In 1899 he went to Istanbul where he worked in several jobs while he continued painting. Meanwhile, he took drawing lessons from an Armenian-origin Ottoman painter -Roben Efendi- at Grand Bazaar. With the support of Şeker Ahmet Paşa he entered the Fine Arts School (now Mimar Sinan University) in 1906. Graduating the school with the highest degree after four years, Çallı was sent to France with a fellowship from government where he studied under Fernand Cormon. During his years in France he didn't pay much attention to upcoming movements like cubism, he embraced a free style close to impressionism. With the outbreak of World War I he returned home and was appoin ...
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Cem Uzan
Cem Uzan (born 26 December 1960, Ä°stanbul) is a Turkish businessman and politician involved in the media and banking industries, while also chairing the social liberal Young Party (GP). His family's media empire (Uzan Group) at one time included both television stations and print media. His family was one of Turkey's most influential families. His supporters claim Uzan's political rivalry resulted in the group's companies being seized by the government under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan, eventually resulting in Uzan's flight to France to escape what he claimed was political persecution. He has been sentenced ''in absentia'' to jail terms in the UK, USA and Turkey for fraud-related offences. This followed closely on the heels of his conviction in the United States for fraud and came as the case was being put together in Turkey for racketeering and fraud leading many to believe he was escaping a likely conviction and prison term in Turkey. He was granted political asylum ...
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YeÅŸim UstaoÄŸlu
Yeşim Ustaoğlu (born 18 November 1960) is a Turkish filmmaker and screenwriter. Life and career Ustaoğlu was born in Kars, Sarıkamış and grew up in Trabzon on the Black Sea. After studying architecture at Karadeniz Technical University she moved to Istanbul, attended master's programme in Yıldız Technical University, she worked as an architect, then as a journalist and a film critic. Before she made her feature film debut '' The Trace'' (''İz'') in 1994, she had made several award-winning short films. ''The Trace'' was entered into the 19th Moscow International Film Festival. Ustaoğlu received international recognition for her next film, '' Journey to the Sun'' (''Güneşe Yolculuk''), which told a story of a friendship between a Turk and a Kurd. Her fourth film ''Pandora's Box Pandora's box is an artifact in Greek mythology connected with the myth of Pandora in Hesiod's c. 700 B.C. poem ''Works and Days''. Hesiod reported that curiosity led her to open a contain ...
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Mehmet Öz
Mehmet Cengiz Öz (; born June 11, 1960), known professionally as Dr. Oz (), is an Turkish American former professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Columbia University, television presenter, author and former political candidate. The son of Turkish immigrants, Oz was raised in Wilmington, Delaware, and graduated from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania. A dual citizen of the U.S. and Turkey, Oz served in the Turkish Army during the 1980s for 60 days of mandatory training, specifically for citizens who reside in foreign countries, to maintain his Turkish citizenship. He subsequently began his residency in surgery at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in 1986. In 2001, he became a professor of surgery at Columbia University, and later retired to professor emeritus in 2018. In 2003, Oprah Winfrey was the first guest on the Discovery Channel series ''Second Opinion with Dr. Oz'', and he was a regular guest on ''The Oprah Winfrey Show,'' making more than six ...
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Sinan Alaağaç
Sinan Alaağaç (May 14, 1960 – November 24, 1985) was a goalkeeper of Eskişehirspor who died in pre-season training due to heart attack A myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to the coronary artery of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle. The most common symptom is chest pain or discomfort which ma .... References Eskişehirspor footballers 1960 births 1985 deaths Men's association football goalkeepers Turkish footballers Place of birth missing {{Turkey-footy-goalkeeper-stub ...
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