2007 in Turkey

2007
in
Turkey

Centuries:
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1980s
  • 1990s
  • 2000s
  • 2010s
  • 2020s
See also:List of years in Turkey

Events in the year 2007 in Turkey.

Incumbents

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

Deaths

Barış Akarsu


January

  • January 15 - Lale Oraloglu, actress and screenwriter (b. 1924)
  • January 19 - Hrant Dink, intellectual, journalist and columnist (b. 1954)
  • January 24 - İsmail Cem, politician, intellectual and journalist (b. 1940)

February

  • February 20 - Zahrad, poet (b. 1924)

March

  • March 3 - Türkan Rado, professor of law (b. 1915)
  • March 6 - Naci Özkaya, footballer (b. 1922)

April

  • April 18 - Ali Dinçer, engineer and politician (b. 1945)
  • April 26 - Ümit Haluk Bayülken, diplomat, ambassador and politician (b. 1921)

May

  • May 6 - Nükhet Ruacan, singer (b. 1951)
  • May 26 - Hasan Eren, Turkologist and Hungarologist (b. 1919)

June

  • June 23 - Erdal Saygın, academician (b. 1931)
  • June 28 - Zehra Bilir, folk singer (b. 1913)

July

  • July 4 - Barış Akarsu, rock musician (b. 1979)
  • July 11 - Ferhunde Erkin, pianist (b. 1909)
  • July 12 - Ulus Baker, sociologist (b. 1960)

August

September

  • September 29 – Yıldırım Aktuna, psychiatrist and politician (b. 1930)

October

  • October 2 – İclal Ar, soprano (b. 1904)
  • October 31 – Erdal İnönü, physicist and politician (b. 1926)

November

  • November 30
    • Aydın Gün, opera singer and stage director (b. 1917)
    • Engin Arık, physicist (b. 1948)

December

  • December 5 – Tankut Öktem, sculptor (born 1941)
  • December 10 – Vitali Hakko businessman (born 1913)
  • December 12 – Saadet İkesus Altan opera singer (born 1916)
  • 13 December – Ahmet Tahtakılıç, lawyer and politician (born 1909)
  • December 20 – Savaş Dinçel actor (born 1942)

References