2004 in Turkey

Events in the year 2004 in Turkey.

← 2003 2002 2001 2004 in Turkey → 2005 2006 2007
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s
See also:	List of years in Turkey

Incumbents

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

Deaths

February

• February 1 - Suha Arın, film director, writer and producer (b. 1942)
• February 7 - Birol Pekel, footballer (b. 1938)
• February 8 - Cem Karaca, rock musician and Anatolian Rock legend (b. 1945)

March

• March 18 - Yavuz Selekman, wrestler and film actor (b. 1937)

April

• April 10 - Sakıp Sabancı, businessman and philanthropist (b. 1933)
• April 18 - Gürdal Duyar, sculptor (b. 1935)
• April 21 - Rıza Doğan, Oliympic wrestler (b. 1931)
• April 24 - Feridun Karakaya, comedy actor (b. 1928)

May

• May 18 - Çetin Alp, singer (b. 1947)
• May 29 - Kâni Karaca, religious singer (b. 1930)

June

• June 6 - Necdet Mahfi Ayral, stage and cinema actor and director (b. 1908)
• June 13 - Doğan Acarbay, Olympic sprinter (b. 1927)
• June 15 - Ahmet Piriştina, politician (b. 1952)

July

• July 14 - İsmail Hakkı Sunat, actor (b. 1966)
• July 20 - Kamuran Gürün, diplomat (b. 1924)
• July 26
  • Oğuz Aral, cartoonist and comics artist (b. 1936)
  • Kamran Usluer, actor (b. 1937)

August

• August 15 - Semiha Berksoy, opera singer and painter (b. 1910)

September

• September 23 – Bülent Oran screenwriter and actor (b. 1924)
• September 27 – Necdet Uğur politician (b. 1923)

October

• October 7 – İsmet Ay, actor (b. 1924)
• October 18 – Pakize Tarzi, first female gynecologist in the Republic of Turkey (b. 1910)
• October 29 – Ordal Demokan, physicist (b. 1946)

November

• November 9 – Mehmet Sabancı, businessman (b. 1963)
• November 10 – Şeref Görkey, footballer and manager (b. 1913)

December

• December 4 – Mahmut Atalay, Olympic champion wrestler (b. 1934)
• December 30 – Rıza Maksut İşman, athlete (b. 1915)

See also

• 2004 in Turkish television