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List of events
Events in the year 1953 in Turkey.
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Parliament
Incumbents
Ruling party and the main opposition
Cabinet
Events
- 21 January – The first agreement with a US firm about oil exploration in Turkey
- 25 February – Nonaggression and Friendship Pact signed with
Greece and
Yugoslavia.
- 18 March –
1953 Yenice–Gönen earthquake
- 4 April –
TCG Dumlupınar submarine collided with a Swedish freighter and sank (81 deaths)
- 28/29 May – Heavy casualties of the Turkish brigade during the
Battle of the Hook in Korea
- 18 June – Earthquake around
Edirne
- 16 August –
House of the Virgin Mary, close to
Ephesus was opened to visits
- 10 November –
Atatürk’s body was transferred to its final resting place (
Anıtkabir) on his death day
- 14 December – All property and the furniture of CHP, the main opposition party was confiscated
Births
- 3 January –
Fikri Karadağ, retired colonel
- 11 January –
Mehmet Altan, economist, writer
- 20 January –
Alaattin Çakıcı, former member of
Grey Wolves
- 23 February –
Adnan Polat, business man
- 1 March –
Sinan Çetin, film director and producer
- 29 March –
Güher and Süher Pekinel sisters, pianists
- 7 April –
Fatih Erkoç, singer
- 4 September –
Fatih Terim, footballer, coach
Deaths
Gallery
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Celal Bayar
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Adnan Menderes
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İsmet İnönü
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Adnan Polat
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Fatih Terim
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Fatih Erkoç
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Halit Akmansü
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Necmettin Sadak
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Şükrü Saracoğlu
References
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^ Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 120–124