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Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	List of years in Turkey

Events in the year1953 in Turkey.^[1]

• 9th Parliament of Turkey

• President –Celal Bayar
• Prime Minister –Adnan Menderes
• Leader of the opposition –İsmet İnönü

• Ruling party –Democrat Party (DP)
• Main opposition –Republican People's Party (CHP)

• 20th government of Turkey

• 21 January – The first agreement with a US firm about oil exploration in Turkey
• 25 February – Nonaggression and Friendship Pact signed withGreece andYugoslavia.
• 18 March –1953 Yenice–Gönen earthquake
• 4 April –TCG Dumlupınar submarine collided with a Swedish freighter and sank (81 deaths)
• 28/29 May – Heavy casualties of the Turkish brigade during theBattle of the Hook in Korea
• 18 June – Earthquake aroundEdirne
• 16 August –House of the Virgin Mary, close toEphesus was opened to visits
• 10 November –Atatürk’s body was transferred to its final resting place (Anıtkabir) on his death day
• 14 December – All property and the furniture of CHP, the main opposition party was confiscated

• 3 January –Fikri Karadağ, retired colonel
• 11 January –Mehmet Altan, economist, writer
• 20 January –Alaattin Çakıcı, former member ofGrey Wolves
• 23 February –Adnan Polat, business man
• 1 March –Sinan Çetin, film director and producer
• 29 March –Güher and Süher Pekinel sisters, pianists
• 7 April –Fatih Erkoç, singer
• 4 September –Fatih Terim, footballer, coach

• 28 January –Neyzen Tevfik,ney player and satirist
• 5 February –Halit Akmansü, retired officier who participated in theTurkish War of Independence
• 22 September –Necmettin Sadak, former foreign minister
• 11 December –Sedat Simavi, journalist and founder ofHürriyet newspaper
• 27 December –Şükrü Saracoğlu, former prime minister (13th and14th government of Turkey)

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  Celal Bayar
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  Adnan Menderes
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  Adnan Polat
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  Fatih Terim
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  Fatih Erkoç
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  Halit Akmansü
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  Necmettin Sadak
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  Şükrü Saracoğlu

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