title: 1929 in Turkey
text: # 1929 in Turkey
  
  Events in the year 1929 in Turkey.
  
  ## 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
  
  ## Gallery
  
  * Kemal Atatürk
  * İsmet İnönü
  * Mustafa Necati
  * Fehime Sultan
  