List of events
Events in the year 1941 in Turkey.[1]
Parliament
Incumbents
Ruling party and the main opposition
Cabinet
12th government of Turkey
Events
- 18 January: Petrol Ofisi a national petroleum company founded.
- 24 March: Turco Soviet declaration. Soviet Union promised neutrality in case of an assault on Turkey.
- 18 June: German-Turkish Friendship and Nonaggression Pact signed.
- 22 June: Turkey declared neutrality in the recently started Germany-USSR War.
- 23 June: Refah tragedy, a Turkish ship was torpedoed by an anonymous battle ship, causing 168 deaths.
- 10 December: 1941 Van–Erciş earthquake
- 19 December: Due to war time hardships, bread consumption was restricted in Istanbul.
Births
Deaths
Gallery
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İsmet İnönü
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Refik Saydam
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Ayşe Kulin
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Ahmet Necdet Sezer
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Salih Bozok
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Kazım Dirik
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Meliha Ulaş
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Cemal Mersinli
References
- ^ Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 88–90