title: 1960 in Turkey
text: # 1960 in Turkey
  
  Events in the year 1960 in Turkey.
  
  ## Parliament
  
  * 11th Parliament of Turkey (up to 27 May)
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * President
  
         Celal Bayar (up to 27 May)
         Cemal Gürsel (from 27 May)
  * Prime Minister
  
         Adnan Menderes (up to 27 May)
         Cemal Gürsel (from 27 May)
  * Leader of the opposition
  
         İsmet İnönü (up to 27 May)
  
  ## Ruling party and the main opposition
  
  * Ruling party
  
         Democrat Party (DP) (up to 27 May)
  * Main opposition
  
         Republican People's Party (CHP) (up to 27 May)
  
  ## Cabinet
  
  * 23rd government of Turkey (up to 27 May)
  * 24th government of Turkey (from 27 May)
  
  ## Events
  
  * 2 April – In Yeşilhisar, because of the interference of ruling party partisans İsmet İnönü the leader of the opposition was not able to continue his election campaign
  * 27 April – The ruling party formed a committee (popularly called Sancar komisyonu) to convict the opposition
  * 5 May – Demonstrations in Ankara (known as 555K)
  * 27 May – Coup d'état
  * 12 June – Beşiktaş won the championship of Turkish football league.
  * 22 October – Census (population 27754820)
  * 15 November – 14 members of the junta were appointed to diplomatic missionaries (exiled)
  
  ## Births
  
  * 23 January – Güldal Akşit, politician
  * 3 February – İlyas Tüfekçi, footballer
  * 8 May – Recep Akdağ, MD and politician
  * 14 May – Sinan Alaağaç, footballer (goalkeeper)
  * 11 June Mehmet Öz, MD
  * 18 November – Yeşim Ustaoğlu, filmmaker and screenwriter
  * 26 December – Cem Uzan, industrialist and politician
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 22 May – İbrahim Çallı (aged 78), painter
  * 30 May – Namık Gedik (aged 49), former minister of Interior (suicide)
  * 23 June – İsmail Hakkı Tonguç (aged 67), one of the founders of the Village Institutes.
  * 29 July – Hasan Saka (aged 74), a former prime minister (1940s)
  
  ## Gallery
  
  * Celal Bayar
  * Cemal Gürsel
  * Adnan Menderes
  * İsmet İnönü
  * Mehmet Öz
  * Hasan Saka
  