Events in the year 1952 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
20th government of Turkey
Events
3 January – 1952 Hasankale earthquake
18 February – Turkey became a member of NATO
16 June – The ban on the female Ottoman dynasty members to enter Turkey was lifted 20 August – Günseli Başar won the European Beauty pageant 22 November – Attempted assassination of journalist Ahmet Emin Yalman. 24 December – Upon Fuat Köprülü's proposal, the Turkish wording of the constitıion was partially changed to Ottoman Turkish
Births
8 April – Ahmet Piriştina, mayor of İzmir
20 April – Erol Küçükbakırcı, cyclist
23 May – Hayati Yazıcı, politician
1 June – Şenol Güneş, football coach
1 June – Ali Müfit Gürtuna, politician
9 June – Bülent Ersoy, singer
2 September – Salih Memecan, caricaturist
28 June – Enis Batur, writer and publisher
Deaths
5 February – Ömer Fevzi Eyüboğlu (born in 1884), journalist
13 March – Ömer Rıza Doğrul (born 1893), publisher and politician
16 May – Memduh Şevket Esendal (born in 1884), writer
28 December – Kerim Erim (born 1894), mathematician and physicist.