Events in the year 1927 in Turkey.Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 36–39
Parliament 2nd Parliament of Turkey (up to 1 September) 3rd Parliament of Turkey (from 1 September)
Incumbents President – Kemal Atatürk Prime Minister – İsmet İnönü
Ruling party and the main opposition Ruling party – Republican People's Party (CHP)
Cabinet 4th government of Turkey (up to 1 November) 5th government of Turkey (from 1 November)
Events 18 January – United States senate rejected the Treaty of Lausanne 1 February – General elections 7 March – End of the Independence Tribunals 1 July – President Kemal Atatürk visited Istanbul. First visit after 1917. (To establish Ankara as the new capital, he had purposely delayed his visit.) 27 August – A group of gangs led Hacı Sami entered Turkey via Samos (in Greece) to create chaos, but they were arrested 7 September – International court supported Turkish point of view on the Bozkurt–Lotus case (see 1926 in Turkey). Turkish lawyer Mahmut Esat was later surnamed BozkurtLaw page 15 October – Kemal Atatürk in a six-day speech, called Nutuk, summarized the events in Turkish War of Independence 19 October – Kemal Atatürk’s will. CHP was the main beneficiary 28 October – Census (population 13,648,270) 30 October – Maintenance of the famous battleship Yavuz began. 3 November – New term of the parliament and the new government of İsmet İnönü 24 November - Statue of Victory, a monument in Ankara about the Turkish War of Independence (There will be others in the following years) 26 December – Marine accident The ship Sevinç sank
Births 3 January – Nazmiye Demirel, wife Süleyman Demirel (former president) 28 January – Eşref Kolçak, actor 17 February – Ali Naili Erdem, lawyer and politician 27 March – Coşkun Kırca, academic, politician 22 June – Çetin Altan, journalist 13 July – Orhan Birgit, lawyer, journalist and politician 10 August – Nejat Uygur, theatre actor 13 October – Turgut Özal, president (1989–1993) 8 November – İlter Türkmen, diplomat 10 November – Vedat Dalokay, architect
Deaths 4 January – Süleyman Nazif (born in 1870), poet 2 June – Hüseyin Avni Lifij (born in 1886), painter 13 July - Mimar Kemaleddin Bey (born in 1871), architect
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