Events in the year 1944 in Turkey.Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 93–94
Parliament 7th Parliament of Turkey
Incumbents President – İsmet İnönü Prime Minister – Şükrü Saracoğlu
Ruling party and the main opposition Ruling party – Republican People's Party (CHP)
Cabinet 14th government of Turkey
Events 18 January – Marine accident in Bandırma. 24 deaths 1 February – 1944 Bolu–Gerede earthquake (north west Anatolia) 3959 deaths 31 March – Turkish cargo ship Krom was torpedoed (Although the freight was wheat, the name of the ship was Krom (Chromium) and it was probably torpedoed because it was assumed that its freight might be chromium to Germany) 4 June – End of Ottoman Public Debt Administration (after 90 years) 2 August – End of diplomatic relations with Germany 6 October – The 1944 Gulf of Edremit–Ayvacik earthquake triggers a tsunami and kills at least 73 people. 7 December – Turkey joined the International Aviation Agreement
Births 15 March – Nebahat Çehre, actress 4 April – Toktamış Ateş, academic 17 August – Semra Sezer, teacher, wife of former president Ahmet Necdet Sezer 19 September – İsmet Özel, poet 12 October – Abdülkadir Aksu, politician 14 October – Şerif Gören, movie director 11 November – Kemal Sunal, actor 22 November – Osman Korutürk, diplomat and politician 17 December – İlhan Erdost, publisher
Deaths 14 January – Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, poet 8 March – Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar, writer 23 August – Abdülmecid II, caliph and a member of the Ottoman dynasty (died in exile) 11 November – Münir Ertegün, diplomat
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