title: 1927 in Turkey
text: # 1927 in Turkey
  
  Events in the year 1927 in Turkey.
  
  ## 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 Bozkurt
  * 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
  * 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
  
  ## Gallery
  
  * Kemal Atatürk
  * İsmet İnönü
  * Süleyman Nazif
  * Hüseyin Avni Lifij (self portrait)
  * Mimar Kemalettin
  