1929 in Turkey
Parliament
    
    
Incumbents
    
    
Ruling party and the main opposition
    
- Ruling party – Republican People's Party (CHP)
 
Cabinet
    
    
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
References
    
- Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 44–47
 
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