1944 in Turkey

Parliament

• 7th Parliament of Turkey

Incumbents

• President – İsmet İnönü
• Prime Minister – Şükrü Saracoğlu

Ruling party and the main opposition

• Ruling party – Republican People's Party

Cabinet

• 14th government of Turkey

Events

• 18 January – Marine accident in Bandırma. 24 deaths
• 1 February – 1944 Bolu–Gerede earthquake 3959 deaths
• 31 March – Turkish cargo ship Krom was torpedoed
• 4 June – End of Ottoman Public Debt Administration
• 2 August – End of diplomatic relations with Germany
• 6 October – The 1944 Gulf of Edremit–Ayvacik earthquake triggers a tsunami and kills at least 73 people.
• 7 December – Turkey joined the International Aviation Agreement

Births

• 15 March – Nebahat Çehre, actress
• 4 April – Toktamış Ateş, academic
• 17 August – Semra Sezer, teacher, wife of former president Ahmet Necdet Sezer
• 19 September – İsmet Özel, poet
• 12 October – Abdülkadir Aksu, politician
• 14 October – Şerif Gören, movie director
• 11 November – Kemal Sunal, actor
• 22 November – Osman Korutürk, diplomat and politician
• 17 December – İlhan Erdost, publisher

Deaths

• 14 January – Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, poet
• 8 March – Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar, writer
• 23 August – Abdülmecid II, caliph and a member of the Ottoman dynasty
• 11 November – Münir Ertegün, diplomat