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1956 in Turkey

overview of Turkey-related events during the year of 1956

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ6029982 ↗
Source-derived summary

Events in the year 1956 in Turkey.

Parliament

10th Parliament of Turkey

Incumbents

President – Celal Bayar

Prime Minister – Adnan Menderes

Leader of the opposition – İsmet İnönü

Ruling party and the main opposition

Ruling party – Democrat Party (DP)

Main opposition – Republican People's Party (CHP)

Cabinet

22nd government of Turkey

Events

20 February – The magnitude 5.8 Eskişehir earthquake affected the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), causing moderate damage and four deaths.

Editorial summary

“1956 in Turkey” enters the record as overview of Turkey-related events during the year of 1956. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Turkey, overview and Turkey-related can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1956—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Turkey, overview and Turkey-related.
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“1956 in Turkey” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Turkey, overview and Turkey-related provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 4, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6029982. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1956.

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This entry incorporates text from “1956 in Turkey” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.