1934 in Turkey

← 1933 1932 1931 1934 in Turkey → 1935 1936 1937
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	List of years in Turkey

Events in the year 1934 in Turkey. ^[1]

Parliament

• 4th 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

• 7th government of Turkey

Events

• 9 February – Balkan Pact
• 4 March – Ankara Radio began broadcasting
• 14 June – Resettlement Law
• 21 June – Surname Law
• 24 November – Atatürk surname for Mustafa Kemal
• 5 December – Women's suffrage (general and local elections)

Births

• 21 February – Aytekin Kotil, politician (d. 1992)
• 5 March – Halit Refiğ, movie director (d. 2009)
• 23 April – Fikret Hakan, actor (d. 2017)
• 30 March – Mahmut Atalay, wrestler (d. 2004)
• 2 August – Oktay Sinanoğlu, academic, chemist (d. 2015)
• 10 August – Tevfik Kış, wrestler (d. 2019)
• 21 August – İzzet Günay, actor
• 22 August – Ayla Erduran, violinist (d. 2025)
• 20 September – Hamit Kaplan, wrestler (d. 1976)

Deaths

• 5 March – Reşit Galip, MD, politician
• 15 April – Kemalettin Sami (born in 1884), retired general
• 29 June – Zaro Aga (born in 1777), allegedly the World's oldest man

Gallery

• 
  Kemal Atatürk
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  İsmet İnönü
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  Reşit Galip
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  Kemalettin Sami
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  Zaro Ağa

References

1. Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 57–59