← 1959 1958 1957 1960 in Turkey → 1961 1962 1963
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
See also:	List of years in Turkey

Events in the year1960 in Turkey.^[1]

• 11th Parliament of Turkey (up to 27 May)

• President

Celal Bayar (up to 27 May)

Cemal Gürsel (from 27 May)

• Prime Minister

Adnan Menderes (up to 27 May)

Cemal Gürsel (from 27 May)

• Leader of the opposition

İsmet İnönü (up to 27 May)

• Ruling party

Democrat Party (DP) (up to 27 May)

• Main opposition

Republican People's Party (CHP) (up to 27 May)

• 23rd government of Turkey (up to 27 May)
• 24th government of Turkey (from 27 May)

• 2 April – InYeşilhisar, because of the interference of ruling party partisansİsmet İnönü the leader of the opposition was not able to continue his election campaign
• 27 April – The ruling party formed a committee (popularly calledSancar komisyonu) to convict the opposition
• 5 May – Demonstrations inAnkara (known as555K)
• 27 May –Coup d'état
• 12 June –Beşiktaş won the championship ofTurkish football league.^[2]
• 22 October – Census (population 27754820)
• 15 November – 14 members of the junta were appointed to diplomatic missionaries (exiled)

• 23 January –Güldal Akşit, politician
• 3 February –İlyas Tüfekçi, footballer
• 8 May –Recep Akdağ, MD and politician
• 14 May –Sinan Alaağaç, footballer (goalkeeper)
• 11 JuneMehmet Öz, MD
• 18 November –Yeşim Ustaoğlu, filmmaker and screenwriter
• 26 December –Cem Uzan, industrialist and politician

• 22 May –İbrahim Çallı (aged 78), painter
• 30 May –Namık Gedik (aged 49), former minister of Interior (suicide)
• 23 June –İsmail Hakkı Tonguç (aged 67), one of the founders of theVillage Institutes.
• 29 July –Hasan Saka (aged 74), a former prime minister (1940s)

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  Celal Bayar
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  Cemal Gürsel
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  Adnan Menderes
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  İsmet İnönü
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  Mehmet Öz
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  Hasan Saka

• 1959–60 Milli Lig
• Turkey at the 1960 Summer Olympics
• Turkey at the 1960 Winter Olympics

• 1960 in Turkey
• Years of the 20th century in Turkey
• 1960 in Europe
• 1960 in Asia
• 1960 by country

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