2004 in Turkey

Incumbents

• Ahmet Necdet Sezer, President, 2000–2007
• Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister, 2003–2014

Deaths

February

• February 1 - Suha Arın, film director, writer and producer
• February 7 - Birol Pekel, footballer
• February 8 - Cem Karaca, rock musician and Anatolian Rock legend

March

• March 18 - Yavuz Selekman, wrestler and film actor

April

• April 10 - Sakıp Sabancı, businessman and philanthropist
• April 18 - Gürdal Duyar, sculptor
• April 21 - Rıza Doğan, Oliympic wrestler
• April 24 - Feridun Karakaya, comedy actor

May

• May 18 - Çetin Alp, singer
• May 29 - Kâni Karaca, religious singer

June

• June 6 - Necdet Mahfi Ayral, stage and cinema actor and director
• June 13 - Doğan Acarbay, Olympic sprinter
• June 15 - Ahmet Piriştina, politician

July

• July 14 - İsmail Hakkı Sunat, actor
• July 20 - Kamuran Gürün, diplomat
• July 26
• * Oğuz Aral, cartoonist and comics artist
• * Kamran Usluer, actor

August

• August 15 - Semiha Berksoy, opera singer and painter

September

• September 23 – Bülent Oran screenwriter and actor
• September 27 – Necdet Uğur politician

October

• October 7 – İsmet Ay, actor
• October 18 – Pakize Tarzi, first female gynecologist in the Republic of Turkey
• October 29 – Ordal Demokan, physicist

November

• November 9 – Mehmet Sabancı, businessman
• November 10 – Şeref Görkey, footballer and manager

December

• December 4 – Mahmut Atalay, Olympic champion wrestler
• December 30 – Rıza Maksut İşman, athlete