2011 in Turkey
Events in the year 2011 in Turkey.
Incumbents
Events
- 19 May – The 5.8 Kütahya earthquake shook western Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII. Two were killed and 122 were injured.
- 23 October – The 7.1 Van earthquake shook eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII. More than 600 were killed and 4,152 were injured.
- Undated — Turkey became the world’s largest refugee host after 2.6 million people enter Turkey from Syria following the start of the Syrian civil war.
Deaths
January
February
- February 2 - Defne Joy Foster, actress, presenter and VJ
- February 6 – Ali Mesut Erez, Turkish politician
- February 15 - Verda Ün, pianist
- February 17 - Emel Say, painter
- February 25 - Kamil Altan, footballer
- February 27 - Necmettin Erbakan, politician, engineer, and academic
March
- March 14 - Jülide Gülizar, anchorwoman and journalist
April
- April 8 - Haydar Saltık, general
- April 15 - Osman Durali, wrestler
- April 19 - Mustafa Kemal Kurdaş, economist
- April 25 - Güven Sazak, businessman
May
- May 7 - Edibe Subaşı Kutucuoğlu, aviator
- May 10 - Vedii Tosuncuk, footballer
- May 29 - Nejat Tümer, admiral
June
- June 1 - Fatoş Sezer, actress
- June 20 - Safa Giray, engineer and politician
- June 22 - Coşkun Özarı, footballer and manager
- June 29 - Kaya Köstepen, footballer
July
- July 16 - Refik Arslan, founder of Refik Restaurant
- July 22 - Ali İhsan Göğüş, journalist and politician
- July 25 - Bakır Çağlar, jurist, lawyer and professor
- July 31 - Mesude Çağlayan, operatic soprano
August
- August 7 - Cem Erman, actor
- August 16 - Mihri Belli, politician
- August 18 - Mustafa Haluk Güçlü, painter
- August 19 - Beki Luiza Bahar, writer
- August 24 - Seyhan Erözçelik, poet
- August 28 - Necip Torumtay, general
September
- September 4 – Hakkı Boran Ögelman physicist and astrophysicist
- September 7 – Nedim Günar footballer
October
- October 4
- * Muzaffer Tema, actor
- * Selma Emiroğlu, cartoonist
- October 5 – Gökşin Sipahioğlu, photographer and journalist
- October 13 – Hasan Güngör, wrestler
- October 18 – Behruz Çinici, architect
- October 21 – Hikmet Bilâ, journalist and columnist
November
- November 1 – Cahit Aral, engineer and politician
- November 13 – Kaşif Kozinoğlu, intelligence official
- November 14 – Esin Afşar, singer and stage actress
- November 19 – Lütfi Ömer Akad, director, screenwriter and academician
- 29 November – Server Tanilli, academic, journalist and author
- November 30 – Benyamin Sönmez, classical cellist
December
- December 11 – Ahmed İhsan Kırımlı, politician
- December 12 – Merih Sezen, fencer
- December 15 – Fevzi Şeker, wrestler
- December 23 – Aydın Menderes, politician
- December 27 – Meral Menderes, operatic soprano
- December 28 – Hasan Mutlucan, singer