1957 in Turkey

Events in the year 1957 in Turkey.^[1]

Parliament

24–25 April – 1957 Fethiye earthquakes
26 May - 1957 Abant earthquake
30 June – Ministry of Industry was established
2 July – Osman Bölükbaşı, the chairman of Republican Nation Party was arrested
25 September – Operation Deep Water, a big NATO exercise around Çanakkale.
27 October – General elections (DP 419 seats, CHP 173 seats CMP 4 seats, HP 4 seats)
20 October – Yarımburgaz train disaster, the worst train accident with 95 dead and 150 wounded people
25 November – Ministry of Tourism was established
28 November – Liberty Party (HP) was merged to Republican People's Party (CHP)

17 May – Nurullah Ataç (born in 1898), essayist and literary critic
1 October – Abdülhalik Renda (born in 1881), former government minister and the speaker of Parliament
13 November – Nuri Demirağ (born in 1886), industrialist and the founder of National Development Party
9 December – Ali İhsan Sabis (born in 1882), retired general
17 December – Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın (born in 1875), journalist, writer

^ Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 134–136
^ "Recherchieren: Personen -Nurten Yılmaz" (in German). Vienna, Austria: Austrian Parliament. Archived from the original on 29 September 2024. Retrieved 14 October 2024.