Events in the year 1939 in Turkey.Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 82–87

Parliament

5th Parliament of Turkey The 5th Grand National Assembly of Turkey existed from 8 February 1935 to 3 April 1939. There were 444 MPs in the parliament all of which were the members of the Republican People's Party (CHP). 5th parliament was the first Turkish parliament in w ...

(up to 3 April) *

6th Parliament of Turkey The 6th Grand National Assembly of Turkey existed from 26 March 1939 to 8 March 1943. There were 470 MPs in the parliament all of which were the members of the Republican People's Party (CHP). Main parliamentary milestones Some of the important e ...

Incumbents

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) *President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ...

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İsmet İnönü Mustafa İsmet İnönü (; 24 September 1884 – 25 December 1973) was a Turkish army officer and statesman of Kurdish descent, who served as the second President of Turkey from 11 November 1938 to 22 May 1950, and its Prime Minister three tim ...

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

Celal Bayar Celal is both a masculine Turkish given name and a surname. It is the Turkish form of the Arabic word Jalal (جلال), which means "majesty". Notable people with the name include: Given name * Celal Al (born 1984), Turkish actor * Celal Esat Arsev ...

Refik Saydam İbrahim Refik Saydam (8 September 1881 – 8 July 1942) was a Turkish physician, politician and the fourth Prime Minister of Turkey, serving from 25 January 1939 until his death on 8 July 1942.Republican People's Party The Republican People's Party ( tr, Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi, , acronymized as CHP ) is a Kemalist and social-democratic political party in Turkey which currently stands as the main opposition party. It is also the oldest political party ...

(CHP)

Cabinet

10th government of Turkey The 10th government of Turkey (11 November 1938 – 25 January 1939) was a short-term government in the history of Turkey. It is also called ''Second Bayar government''. Background Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the president and the founder of modern ...

(up to 25 January) *

11th government of Turkey The 11th government of Turkey existed for the short term of 25 January 1939 to 3 April 1939. It is also known as the ''first Saydam'' cabinet. Background The government was formed after Celal Bayar, the prime minister of the previous governm ...

(25 January – 3 April) *

12th government of Turkey The 12th government of Turkey (3 April 1939 – 9 July 1942) governed Turkey during the early years of the Second World War. It is also known as the ''second Saydam'' government. Background The government was formed after the general elections ...

(from 3 April)

Events

*25 January – Prime minister Celal Bayar resigned. İsmet İnönü appointed Refik Saydam as the new prime minister *26 March – General elections *26 June – Hatay Republic decided to merge to Turkey *23 July – The last of the French military troops left Hatay *22 September – Dikili Earthquake.46 deaths *19 October – Defensive alliance with United Kingdom and France *27/28 December – The 7.8 Erzincan earthquake shakes eastern

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XII (''Extreme''), causing $20 million in damage, and leaving 32,700–32,968 dead.

Births

*10 February –

Enver Ören Enver Ören (10 February 1939, Honaz, Denizli – 22 February 2013, Şişli, Istanbul) was the founder of İhlas Holding. He was born in Turkey. He graduated from the Faculty of Science at Istanbul University in 1961. He was accepted to the premi ...

, business man, newspaper owner *11 February – Okay Temiz, musician *10 June –

Ahmet Taner Kışlalı Ahmet Taner Kışlalı (10 July 1939 – 21 October 1999) was a Turkish intellectual, political scientist, lawyer, commentator/author for the ''Cumhuriyet'' newspaper, academics and politician. Biography He completed his primary and secondary e ...

, academic, politician *25 July –

Filiz Dinçmen Filiz Dinçmen (born July 24, 1939 in Zonguldak, Turkey ) is a former Turkish diplomat, who became the first female Turkish ambassador to a foreign country. Education Dinçmen completed her high school education at Ankara Highschool for Girls i ...

, first female ambassador of Turkey *31 October –

Çiğdem Talu Çiğdem Talu (October 31, 1939 – May 28, 1983) was a Turkish pop music lyricist. The writer Ercüment Ekrem Talu was her grandfather. Çiğdem wrote her first song "''Ağlıyorum Yine''", which was sung by Nilüfer and released on her sing ...

, lyricist *2 December –

Özcan Arkoç Özcan Arkoç (2 October 1939 – 17 February 2021) was a Turkish Association football, footballer who played as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper, most notably for German club Hamburger SV. Career Arkoç was born in Hayrabolu, Tu ...

, goalkeeper *27 December –

Leyla Sayar Leylâ Sayar (December 27, 1939 – July 22, 2016) was a Turkish actress, author, ballerina, beauty queen, and singer of Circassian and Macedonian Turkish descent. Sayar was considered to be one of the most beautiful women of the Cinema of Turkey ...

, actress

Deaths

*19 May –

Ahmet Ağaoğlu Ahmet Ağaoğlu, also known as Ahmet Bey Ağaoğlu ( az, Əhməd bəy Ağaoğlu; December 1869 – 19 May 1939), was a prominent Azerbaijani and naturalized Turkish politician, publicist and journalist. He was one of the founders of Pan-Turkism ...

(born in 1869), journalist *25 September –

Ali Saip Ursavaş Ali Saip Ursavaş, also known as Ali Saib Bey (1885, in Rowanduz – September 25, 1939 in Adana) was an Iraqi-Turkish officer of Kurdish origin, having served in the Ottoman and Turkish armies, and one of the early key members of CHP. He ...

(1887), politician *20 December – Yakup Şevki Subaşı (born in 1876), retired general *25 December –

Ömer Halis Bıyıktay Ömer Halis Bıyıktay (1883; Erzincan - December 25, 1939; Istanbul) was an officer of the Ottoman Army and a general of the Turkish Army. See also *List of high-ranking commanders of the Turkish War of Independence This list includes high-r ...

(born in 1883), retired general

Gallery

File:Inonu Ismet.jpg, İsmet İnönü File:Mahmut Celâl Bayar.jpg, Celal Bayar File:Refik Saydam.jpg, Refik Saydam File:Ahmet Agaoglu.jpg, Ahmet Ağaoğlu File:Ali Saip Bey.png, Ali Saip Ursavaş File:YSSubasi.jpg, Yakup Şevki File:Colonel Omer Halis Biyiktay.jpg, Ömer Halis Bıyıktay

References

{{Year in Asia, 1939 Years of the 20th century in Turkey