Events in the year 1941 in Turkey.^[1]

• 6th Parliament of Turkey

• President – İsmet İnönü
• Prime Minister – Refik Saydam

• Ruling party – Republican People's Party (CHP)

12th government of Turkey

• 18 January: Petrol Ofisi a national petroleum company founded.
• 24 March: Turco Soviet declaration. Soviet Union promised neutrality in case of an assault on Turkey.
• 18 June: German-Turkish Friendship and Nonaggression Pact signed.
• 22 June: Turkey declared neutrality in the recently started Germany-USSR War.
• 23 June: Refah tragedy, a Turkish ship was torpedoed by an anonymous battle ship, causing 168 deaths.
• 10 December: 1941 Van–Erciş earthquake
• 19 December: Due to war time hardships, bread consumption was restricted in Istanbul.

• 15 May – Özdemir Sabancı, industrialist (died 1996)
• 24 June – Erkin Koray, musician
• 18 July – Bedrettin Dalan, Mayor of İstanbul
• 7 August – Gündüz Aktan, diplomat and politician (died 2008)
• 26 August – Ayşe Kulin, writer
• 13 September – Ahmet Necdet Sezer, president (2000–2007)
• 21 November – İdil Biret, pianist
• 26 December – Şener Şen, actor

• 25 April – Salih Bozok (born in 1881), Atatürk's aide de camp
• 3 July – Kâzım Dirik (born in 1881), retired general
• 17 July – Meliha Ulaş (born in 1901), politician, teacher
• 7 October – Cemal Mersinli (born in 1875), retired general

• İsmet İnönü
• Refik Saydam
• Ayşe Kulin
• Ahmet Necdet Sezer
• Salih Bozok
• Kazım Dirik
• Meliha Ulaş
• Cemal Mersinli