Events in the year 2007 in Turkey.
Incumbents Ahmet Necdet Sezer, President, 2000–2007 Abdullah Gül, President, 2007–2014 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister, 2003–2014
Deaths
January January 15 - Lale Oraloglu, actress and screenwriter (b. 1924) January 19 - Hrant Dink, intellectual, journalist and columnist (b. 1954) January 24 - İsmail Cem, politician, intellectual and journalist (b. 1940)
February February 20 - Zahrad, poet (b. 1924)
March March 3 - Türkan Rado, professor of law (b. 1915) March 6 - Naci Özkaya, footballer (b. 1922)
April April 18 - Ali Dinçer, engineer and politician (b. 1945) April 26 - Ümit Haluk Bayülken, diplomat, ambassador and politician (b. 1921)
May May 6 - Nükhet Ruacan, singer (b. 1951) May 26 - Hasan Eren, Turkologist and Hungarologist (b. 1919)
June June 23 - Erdal Saygın, academician (b. 1931) June 28 - Zehra Bilir, folk singer (b. 1913)
July July 4 - Barış Akarsu, rock musician (b. 1979) July 11 - Ferhunde Erkin, pianist (b. 1909) July 12 - Ulus Baker, sociologist (b. 1960)
August
September September 29 – Yıldırım Aktuna, psychiatrist and politician (b. 1930)
October October 2 – İclal Ar, soprano (b. 1904) October 31 – Erdal İnönü, physicist and politician (b. 1926)
November November 30 Aydın Gün, opera singer and stage director (b. 1917) Engin Arık, physicist (b. 1948)
December December 5 – Tankut Öktem, sculptor (born 1941) December 10 – Vitali Hakko businessman (born 1913) December 12 – Saadet İkesus Altan opera singer (born 1916) 13 December – Ahmet Tahtakılıç, lawyer and politician (born 1909) December 20 – Savaş Dinçel actor (born 1942)
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