2007 in Turkey

Incumbents

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

Deaths

January

• January 15 - Lale Oraloglu, actress and screenwriter
• January 19 - Hrant Dink, intellectual, journalist and columnist
• January 24 - İsmail Cem, politician, intellectual and journalist

February

• February 20 - Zahrad, poet

March

• March 3 - Türkan Rado, professor of law
• March 6 - Naci Özkaya, footballer

April

• April 18 - Ali Dinçer, engineer and politician
• April 26 - Ümit Haluk Bayülken, diplomat, ambassador and politician

May

• May 6 - Nükhet Ruacan, singer
• May 26 - Hasan Eren, Turkologist and Hungarologist

June

• June 23 - Erdal Saygın, academician
• June 28 - Zehra Bilir, folk singer

July

• July 4 - Barış Akarsu, rock musician
• July 11 - Ferhunde Erkin, pianist
• July 12 - Ulus Baker, sociologist

September

• September 29 – Yıldırım Aktuna, psychiatrist and politician

October

• October 2 – İclal Ar, soprano
• October 31 – Erdal İnönü, physicist and politician

November

• November 30
• * Aydın Gün, opera singer and stage director
• * Engin Arık, physicist

December

• December 5 – Tankut Öktem, sculptor
• December 10 – Vitali Hakko businessman
• December 12 – Saadet İkesus Altan opera singer
• 13 December – Ahmet Tahtakılıç, lawyer and politician
• December 20 – Savaş Dinçel actor