Events in the year 1949 in Turkey.^[1]

• 8th Parliament of Turkey

• President – İsmet İnönü
• Prime Minister

Hasan Saka (up to 16 January)

Şemsettin Günaltay (from 16 January)

• Leader of the opposition – Celal Bayar

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

17th government of Turkey (up to 10 June)

18th government of Turkey (from 10 June)

• 14 January: Hasan Saka, the prime minister resigns.
• 24 January: Nationalistic poet Behçet Kemal Çağlar resigns from CHP, protesting Şemsettin Günaltay's cabinet and claiming that the secular principle of the party was sacrificed
• 1 February: Religion courses offered to primary school children.
• 24 March: Turkey grants de facto diplomatic recognition to Israel.
• 9 July: Fire in Çorum passenger ship leaves 61 dead.
• 8 August: Turkey admitted to Council of Europe.
• 17 August: 1949 Karlıova earthquake
• 15 October: By elections
• 16 November: Several members of the Nation Party were arrested on a fake assassination charge (It was claimed that they were planning to assassinate İsmet İnönü and Celal Bayar, but several days later they were released)

• 1 January – Vehbi Akdağ, wrestler (d. 2020)
• 10 January – Kemal Derviş, economist and politician
• 20 February – Adnan Kahveci, politician
• 25 February – Esmeray Diriker, singer
• 25 February – Sevil Atasoy, biochemist, forensic expert
• 21 March – Muammer Güler, politician
• 29 March – Kayahan Açar, singer
• 15 April – Kadir İnanır, actor
• 14 November – Güneş Taner, politician
• 13 December – Tarik Akan, actor
• 25 December – Mustafa Cengiz, businessman (died 2021)

• 21 February – Ali Çetinkaya (born 1878), politician
• 31 December – Rıza Tevfik Bölükbaşı (born 1869), philosopher and politician

• İsmet İnönü
• Hasan Saka
• Şemsettin Günaltay
• Celal Bayar
• Kemal Derviş
• Kadir İnanır
• Ali Çetinkaya
• Rıza Tevfik Bölükbaşı