Events in the year 2004 in Turkey.
Incumbents Ahmet Necdet Sezer, President, 2000–2007 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister, 2003–2014
Governors Adana: Cahit Kıraç Adıyaman: Halil Işık Afyonkarahisar: Muzaffer Dilek Ağrı: Hüseyin Atak Aksaray: Hüseyin Avni Coş Amasya: Erhan Tanju Ankara: Kemal Önal Antalya: Alaaddin Yüksel Ardahan: Murat Yıldırım Artvin: M. Selahattin Aparcı Aydın: Mustafa Malay Balıkesir: Selahattin Hatipoğlu Bartın: Fatih Eryılmaz Batman: Halil İbrahim Daşöz Bayburt: Asaf Hacımustafaoğlu Bilecik: Ayhan Çevik Bingöl: Vehbi Avuç Bitlis: Aslan Kütükçü Bolu: Ali Serindağ Burdur: Can Direkçi Bursa: Nihat Canpolat Çanakkale: Orhan Kırlı Çankırı: Ali Haydar Öner Çorum: Hüseyin Poroy Denizli: Recep Yazıcıoğlu Diyarbakır: Nusret Miroğlu (left office in September 2004) / Efkan Ala (assumed office in September 2004) Düzce: Fuat Gürel Edirne: Nusret Miroğlu (assumed office in September 2004) Elazığ: Kadir Çakır Erzincan: Ali Güngör Erzurum: Celalettin Güvenç Eskişehir: Kadir Çalışkan Gaziantep: Lütfullah Bilgin Giresun: Şükrü Kocatepe Gümüşhane: Veysel Dalmaz Hakkari: Ayhan Nasuhbeyoğlu Hatay: Ahmet Kayhan Iğdır: Halil Ulusoy Isparta: Isa Parlak İstanbul: Muammer Güler İzmir: Oğuz Kağan Köksal Kahramanmaraş: Ilhan Atış Karabük: Muzaffer Ecemiş Karaman: Hasan Basri Güzeloğlu Kars: Nevzat Turhan Kastamonu: Must Kara Kayseri: Osman Güneş Kırıkkale: Ali Kolat Kırklareli: Hüseyin Avni Coş Kırşehir: Selahattin Hatipoğlu Kilis: Aslan Kütükçü Kocaeli: Gökhan Sözer Konya: Ahmet Kayhan Kütahya: Şükrü Kocatepe Malatya: Osman Derya Kadıoğlu Manisa: Refik Arslan Öztürk Mardin: Temel Koçaklar Mersin: Atilla Osmançelebioğlu Muğla: Lütfi Yiğenoğlu Muş: İlker Gündüzöz Nevşehir: Alaattin Turhan Niğde: Gazi Şimşek Ordu: Said Vakkas Gözlügöl Osmaniye: Ali Yerlikaya Rize: Enver Salihoğlu Sakarya: M. Cahit Kıraç Samsun: Mustafa Demir Siirt: Nuri Okutan Sinop: Zeki Şanal Sivas: Hasan Canpolat Şanlıurfa: Yusuf Yavaşcan Şırnak: Osman Güneş Tekirdağ: Cengiz Aydoğdu Tokat: Ayhan Nasuhbeyoğlu Trabzon: Aslan Yıldırım (left office in September 2004) / Hüseyin Yavuzdemir (assumed office in September 2004) Tunceli: Mustafa Erkal Uşak: Ali Fuat Atik Van: Niyazi Tanılır Yalova: Yusuf Erbay Yozgat: Gökhan Sözer Zonguldak: Yavuz Erkmen
Deaths
January
February February 1 - Suha Arın, film director, writer and producer (b. 1942) February 7 - Birol Pekel, footballer (b. 1938) February 8 - Cem Karaca, rock musician and Anatolian Rock legend (b. 1945)
March March 18 - Yavuz Selekman, wrestler and film actor (b. 1937)
April April 10 - Sakıp Sabancı, businessman and philanthropist (b. 1933) April 18 - Gürdal Duyar, sculptor (b. 1935) April 21 - Rıza Doğan, Oliympic wrestler (b. 1931) April 24 - Feridun Karakaya, comedy actor (b. 1928)
May May 18 - Çetin Alp, singer (b. 1947) May 29 - Kâni Karaca, religious singer (b. 1930)
June June 6 - Necdet Mahfi Ayral, stage and cinema actor and director (b. 1908) June 13 - Doğan Acarbay, Olympic sprinter (b. 1927) June 15 - Ahmet Piriştina, politician (b. 1952)
July July 14 - İsmail Hakkı Sunat, actor (b. 1966) July 20 - Kamuran Gürün, diplomat (b. 1924) July 26 Oğuz Aral, cartoonist and comics artist (b. 1936) Kamran Usluer, actor (b. 1937)
August August 15 - Semiha Berksoy, opera singer and painter (b. 1910)
September September 23 – Bülent Oran screenwriter and actor (b. 1924) September 27 – Necdet Uğur politician (b. 1923)
October October 7 – İsmet Ay, actor (b. 1924) October 18 – Pakize Tarzi, first female gynecologist in the Republic of Turkey (b. 1910) October 29 – Ordal Demokan, physicist (b. 1946)
November November 9 – Mehmet Sabancı, businessman (b. 1963) November 10 – Şeref Görkey, footballer and manager (b. 1913)
December December 4 – Mahmut Atalay, Olympic champion wrestler (b. 1934) December 30 – Rıza Maksut İşman, athlete (b. 1915)
See also 2004 in Turkish television
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