// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did 1945 in Turkey say? "Fowl" year.

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Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
See also:	List of years in Turkey

Events in the year 1945 in Turkey.

Parliament

• 7th Parliament of Turkey

Incumbents

• President – İsmet İnönü
• Prime Minister – Şükrü Saracoğlu

Ruling party

• Ruling party – Republican People's Party (CHP)

Cabinet

• 14th government of Turkey

Events

• 3 January – End of diplomatic relations with Japan.
• 10 January – Ottoman Turkish wording of the constitution was changed to modern Turkish (to be reverted in 1952)
• 23 February – Declaration of war against Germany and Japan
• 12 June – Motion with four signatures (Turkish: Dörtlü takrir) by Celal Bayar, Adnan Menderes, Refik Koraltan and Fuat Köprülü. Serious opposition in CHP
• 26 June – Turkey joined the United Nations
• 5 September – National Development Party was founded
• 21 October – Census (population 18,790,174)
• 20 November – Earthquake in Van

Births

• 8 January – Kadir Topbaş, politician and architect (d. 2021)
• 5 April – Cem Karaca, singer (d. 2004)
• 20 June – Murat Sökmenoğlu, politician
• 22 June – Yaşar Nuri Öztürk, theologist and politician
• 15 November – Ferdi Tayfur, singer
• 20 November – Emel Sayın, singer
• 30 November – Ayşen Gruda, theatre actress

Deaths

• 9 January – Osman Cemal Kaygılı (born in 1890), writer
• 27 March – Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil (born in 1866) writer
• 28 June – Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu (born in 1879), journalist
• 22 September – Mürsel Bakü (born in 1881), retired general

Gallery

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  Şükrü Saracoğlu
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  Celal Bayar
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  Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil
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  Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu
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  Mürsel Bakü
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  Emel Sayın