Events in the year 1923 in Turkey.

Parliament

2nd Parliament of Turkey The 2nd Grand National Assembly of Turkey existed from 29 October 1923 to 1 September 1927. Actually the parliament members were elected on 11 August 1923, before the Turkey, Republic was proclaimed on 29 October. There were 333 MPs in the parlia ...

Incumbents

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ( 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish field marshal and revolutionary statesman who was the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first President of Turkey, president from 1923 until Death an ...

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television *'' Præsident ...

, 29 October 1923 – 10 November 1938 *

İsmet İnönü Mustafa İsmet İnönü (24 September 1884 – 25 December 1973) was a Turkish politician and military officer who served as the second List of Presidents of Turkey, president of Turkey from 1938 to 1950, and as its Prime Minister of Turkey, pr ...

Prime Minister A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state, but r ...

, 1 November 1923 – 22 November 1924

Events

July

*The

Turkish War of Independence , strength1 = May 1919: 35,000November 1920: 86,000Turkish General Staff, ''Türk İstiklal Harbinde Batı Cephesi'', Edition II, Part 2, Ankara 1999, p. 225August 1922: 271,000Celâl Erikan, Rıdvan Akın: ''Kurtuluş Savaşı tarih ...

was settled with the

Treaty of Lausanne The Treaty of Lausanne (, ) is a peace treaty negotiated during the Lausanne Conference of 1922–1923 and signed in the Palais de Rumine in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 24 July 1923. The treaty officially resolved the conflict that had initially ...

, signed on 24 JulyTreaty with Turkey and other Instruments signed at Lausanne
''MFA'', Access Date: 8 August 2014 * Turkish Republic was proclaimed on 29 October, abolishing the Ottoman sultanate *Letter from Agha Khan III to

about the future of the Caliphate was sent on 24 November

Deaths

*15 January – Zübeyde Hanım, 66, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's mother.

Births

*Refik Arslan, founder of Refik Restaurant (died 2011).

References

{{Year in Asia, 1923 1920s in Turkey Years of the 20th century in Turkey

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...