Events in the year 1929 in Turkey.Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 44–47
Parliament 3rd Parliament of Turkey
Incumbents President – Kemal Atatürk Prime Minister – İsmet İnönü
Ruling party and the main opposition Ruling party – Republican People's Party (CHP)
Cabinet 5th government of Turkey
Events 21 January – Great fire in Istanbul 24 March – Bankruptcy law 16 April: Women are given the right to vote in municipal elections. 23 April – To commemorate the opening of the Turkish parliament was established as the Children's Day. 1 July – First intercity telephone line between Ankara and İstanbul 11 October – The maintenance of the Turkish battleship Yavuz was completed 25 October – First international air mail (Between İstanbul and Berlin)
Births 7 February – Aysel Gürel, lyricist 13 February – Kenan Erim, archaeologist 18 February – Ertem Eğilmez, film director and producer 1 March – Nida Tüfekçi, musician 3 March – Mithat Bayrak, wrestler 29 April – Ferit Tüzün, composer 5 May – Ayhan Işık, actor 7 June – Basri Dirimlili, footballer 11 June – Ayhan Şahenk, business man 24 July – Gülriz Sururi, theatre actress 9 August – Abdi İpekçi, journalist 15 September – Mümtaz Soysal, academic, lawyer and politician 10 October – Ayten Alpman, singer 13 October – Adalet Ağaoğlu, novelist 30 November – Doğan Babacan, referee
Deaths 1 January – Mustafa Necati (born in 1894), minister of education and the founder of Public schools for the new alphabet (Nation's schools) 15 September – Fehime Sultan (born 1875), Ottoman princess
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