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Events in the year '''2011 in Turkey'''. {{horizontal TOC|nonum=yes}}

==Incumbents== *President: Abdullah Gül *Prime Minister: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

==Events== *19 May – The 5.8 {{M|w|link=y}} Kütahya earthquake shook western Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (''Very strong''). Two were killed and 122 were injured. *23 October – The 7.1 {{M|w|link=y}} Van earthquake shook eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (''Severe''). More than 600 were killed and 4,152 were injured. *Undated — Turkey became the world’s largest refugee host after 2.6 million people enter Turkey from Syria following the start of the Syrian civil war.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2012-05-08 |title=Turkey profile - Timeline |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17994865 |access-date=2023-08-30}}</ref>

== Deaths ==

[[File:Defne Joy Foster Izmir Fatih College Graduation Ceremony Pic.JPG|thumb|110px|Defne Joy Foster]] [[File:Necmettin Erbakan.jpg|thumb|110px|Necmettin Erbakan]] [[File:Coşkun Özarı.jpg|thumb|110px|Coşkun Özarı]] [[File:Kaya Köstepen.jpg|thumb|110px|Kaya Köstepen]] [[File:Hakki B. Ögelman.png|thumb|110px|Hakkı Boran Ögelman]] [[File:LutfiAkad-LeventEv.jpg|thumb|110px|Lütfi Ömer Akad]]

=== January === * January 10 - Hanife Çetiner, fashion designer (b. 1938)

=== February === * February 2 - Defne Joy Foster, actress, presenter and VJ (born 1975) * February 6 – Ali Mesut Erez, Turkish politician (born 1922) * February 15 - Verda Ün, pianist (born 1919) * February 17 - Emel Say, painter (born 1927) * February 25 - Kamil Altan, footballer (born 1924) * February 27 - Necmettin Erbakan, politician, engineer, and academic (born 1926)

=== March === * March 14 - Jülide Gülizar, anchorwoman and journalist (b. 1929)

=== April === * April 8 - Haydar Saltık, general (b. 1923) * April 15 - Osman Durali, wrestler (b. 1939) * April 19 - Mustafa Kemal Kurdaş, economist (b. 1920) * April 25 - Güven Sazak, businessman (b. 1935)

=== May === * May 7 - Edibe Subaşı Kutucuoğlu, aviator (b. 1920) * May 10 - Vedii Tosuncuk, footballer (b. 1921) * May 29 - Nejat Tümer, admiral (b. 1924)

=== June === * June 1 - Fatoş Sezer, actress (b. 1958) * June 20 - Safa Giray, engineer and politician (b. 1951) * June 22 - Coşkun Özarı, footballer and manager (b. 1931) * June 29 - Kaya Köstepen, footballer (b. 1934)

=== July === * July 16 - Refik Arslan, founder of Refik Restaurant (b. 1923) * July 22 - Ali İhsan Göğüş, journalist and politician (b. 1923) * July 25 - Bakır Çağlar, jurist, lawyer and professor (b. 1941) * July 31 - Mesude Çağlayan, operatic soprano (b. 1918)

=== August === * August 7 - Cem Erman, actor (b. 1947) * August 16 - Mihri Belli, politician (b. 1915) * August 18 - Mustafa Haluk Güçlü, painter (b. 1951) * August 19 - Beki Luiza Bahar, writer (b. 1926) * August 24 - Seyhan Erözçelik, poet (b. 1962) * August 28 - Necip Torumtay, general (b. 1926)

=== September === * September 4 – Hakkı Boran Ögelman physicist and astrophysicist (b. 1940) * September 7 – Nedim Günar footballer (b. 1932)

=== October === * October 4 ** Muzaffer Tema, actor (b. 1919) ** Selma Emiroğlu, cartoonist (b. 1928) * October 5 – Gökşin Sipahioğlu, photographer and journalist (b. 1926) * October 13 – Hasan Güngör, wrestler (b. 1934) * October 18 – Behruz Çinici, architect (b. 1932) * October 21 – Hikmet Bilâ, journalist and columnist (b. 1954)

=== November === * November 1 – Cahit Aral, engineer and politician (b. 1927) * November 13 – Kaşif Kozinoğlu, intelligence official (b. 1955) * November 14 – Esin Afşar, singer and stage actress (b. 1936) * November 19 – Lütfi Ömer Akad, director, screenwriter and academician (b. 1916) * 29 November – Server Tanilli, academic, journalist and author (born 1931) * November 30 – Benyamin Sönmez, classical cellist (b. 1983)

=== December === * December 11 – Ahmed İhsan Kırımlı, politician (b. 1920) * December 12 – Merih Sezen, fencer (b. 1919) * December 15 – Fevzi Şeker, wrestler (b. 1962) * December 23 – Aydın Menderes, politician (b. 1946) * December 27 – Meral Menderes, operatic soprano (b. 1933) * December 28 – Hasan Mutlucan, singer (b. 1926)

==See also== *List of Turkish films of 2011

==References== {{reflist}}

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