1925 in Turkey

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Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	List of years in Turkey

Events in the year 1925 in Turkey.^[1]

Parliament

• 2nd Parliament of Turkey

Incumbents

• President – Kemal Atatürk
• Prime Minister

Fethi Okyar (up to 3 March)

İsmet İnönü (from 3 March)

• Leader of the opposition – Kazım Karabekir (up to 5 June)

Ruling party and the main opposition

• Ruling party – Republican People's Party (CHP)
• Main opposition – Progressive Republican Party (TCF) (up to 3 June)

Cabinet

• 3rd government of Turkey (up to 3 March)
• 4th government of Turkey (from 3 March)

Events

• 1 January –Turkey gained the right of duty tax (according to the treaty of Lausanne)
• 11 February – Beginning of Sheikh Said rebellion
• 17 February – Tax of Ashar ended. An important reform in the daily lives of the villagers
• 24 February – The rebels captured Elazığ
• 26 February – End of the Regie Company. An important step in the economics
• 3 March – Fetkhi Okyar’s cabinet which was ineffective against the rebellion was replaced by İsmet İnönü's new cabinet
• 4 March – Independence Tribunals
• 8 March – Rebels were defeated around Diyarbakır
• 12 April – Sheikh Said was arrested
• 1 May – Earthquake in Adana
• 3 June – Independence Tribunal closed the Progressive Republican Party
• 5 August – Atatürk and Latife Hanım (Latife Uşakizade) were divorced
• 25 August – In Kastamonu Atatürk made a speech on traditional costume and expressed his preference for western style hat
• 4 September – First ball in which Muslim women attended
• 25 November – The Hat reform
• 30 November – Tekkes, traditional institutions were closed

Births

• 11 March – İlhan Selçuk, journalist
• 5 April – Sadri Alışık, actor
• 28 May – Bülent Ecevit, journalist, prime minister (37th, 40th ,42nd, 56th, and 57th government of Turkey)
• 1 June – İdris Küçükömer, academic and philosopher
• 15 June – Atilla İlhan, poet
• 6 July – Gazi Yaşargil, MD ( neurosurgeon)
• 15 August – Münir Özkul, theatre actor
• 28 September – Ali Bozer, lawyer, politician
• 9 December – Atıf Yılmaz, film director
• 22 December – Lefter Küçükandonyadis, footballer (of Greek origin)

Deaths

• 14 February – Halit Pasha (born in 1883), general, politician (killed)
• 12 March – Hüseyin Ferit Törümküney (born in 1878), bureaucrat, politician
• 29 June – Şeyh Said (born in 1865), rebel leader (executed)
• 18 December – Süleyman Sırrı Aral (born in 1874), engineer, politician

Gallery

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  Kemal Atatürk

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  Fethi Okyar

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  İsmet İnönü

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  Kazım Karabekir

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  Latife Hanım

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  Halit Pasha

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  İlhan Selçuk (statue)

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  Bülent Ecevit

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  Lefter Küçükandonyadis

References

This page was last edited on 12 June 2023, at 20:55