Events in the year 1947 in Turkey.^[1]

• 8th Parliament of Turkey

• President – İsmet İnönü
• Prime Minister

Recep Peker (up to 10 September)

Hasan Saka (from 10 September)

• Leader of the opposition

Celal Bayar

• Ruling party – Republican People's Party (CHP)
• Main opposition – Democrat Party (DP)

15th government of Turkey(up to 10 September)

16th government of Turkey (from 10 September)

• 20 February – Trade Union was founded
• 7 April – By elections
• 12 March – US military aid to Turkey
• 12 July – Mutual Declaration of the ruling and the opposition parties about democracy
• 9 September – Recep Peker who was considered as a hard-line politician resigned from his post as prime minister
• 21 September – Mine incident in Kozlu, Zonguldak , 21 deaths
• 25 October – Soviet Union asked to annex Kars and Ardahan in the United Nations assembly
• 27 November – Statues of Halkevleri was changed

• 1 January – Cemil Turan, footballer
• 5 January – Osman Arpacıoğlu, footballer
• 1 April – Beşir Atalay, government minister
• 16 April – Erol Evgin, singer
• 22 December – Tarık Ümit, intelligence official
• 21 May – İlber Ortaylı, academic, historian
• 14 July – Salih Neftçi, economist
• 4 August – Ertuğrul Özkök, journalist
• 5 August – Osman Durmuş, politician, MD
• 15 October – Hümeyra Akbay, singer
• 12 December – Hülya Koçyiğit, actress

• 2 February – Mehmet Naki Yücekök (born in 1866), retired military officer
• 6 March – İhsan Eryavuz, former government minister and businessman
• 27 July – Cemal Nadir Güler (born in 1902), caricaturist
• 3 December -Mehmet Atıf Ateşdağlı (born in 1876), retired military officer

• İsmet İnönü
• Şükrü Saracoğlu
• Recep Peker
• Hasan Saka
• Celal Bayar
• İlber Ortaylı
• Hülya Koçyiğit
• mehmet Naki Yücekök
• İhsan Eryavuz