Events in the year 1951 in Turkey.
Parliament
- 9th 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
- 19th government of Turkey (up to 9 March)
- 20th government of Turkey (from 9 March)
Events
- 21 January – First convoy of wounded Turkish Brigade soldiers from Korean War arrived in Turkey
- 26 June – The corpse of the reformist grandvizier Mithat Pasha, who was assassinated in Saudi Arabia in 1883, was buried in Istanbul
- 2 July – Presidential yacht MV Savarona was transferred to the Turkish Naval Forces
- 8 August – Halkevleri, a state sponsored enlightenment project, was ended
- 13 August – 1951 Kurşunlu earthquake
- 17 September – Byelections
- 1 October – Turkish Air Force Academy was founded
Births
- 16 February – Ferhan Şensoy theatre actor
- 5 April, Nedim Gürsel, writer
- 23 July, Leman Sam, singer
- 6 September – Melih Kibar, composer
- 14 December – Nükhet Ruacan, jazz singer
- 16 December – Aykut Barka, earth scientist specialized in earthquakes
- Metin Yurdanur, sculptor
Deaths
- 3 January – Ali Münif Yeğenağa (born in 1874), politician (Ottoman Empire and Turkey)
- 26 July – Ali Sami Yen (born in 1886), founder of Galatasaray sports club
- 20 August – İzzettin Çalışlar (born in 1882), retired general, who participated in the Turkish War of Independence
- 31 August – Mazhar Osman Usman (born in 1884), doctor and the founder of Bakırköy Psychiatric Hospital
- 11 December – Mustafa Muğlalı (born in 1882), retired general, who participated in the Turkish War of Independence
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