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Cemal Gürsel
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Cemal Gürsel

1895 – 1966 · aged 71

4th President of the Republic of Turkey (1895–1966)

Born
13 Oct 1895 · Hınıs
Died
14 Sept 1966 · Ankara
Part ofOttoman Empire1299 – 1922Turkey1,258 BCE – todaySunni Islam731 CE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 82 years
  1. 13 Oct 1895BornBorn in Hınıs
  2. 1914 – 1918WarWorld War I
  3. 1915 – 1916WarGallipoli Campaign
  4. 1919 – 1922WarGreco-Turkish War
  5. 1960 – 1961RolePrime Minister of Turkey
  6. 1960RoleMinister of National Defence
  7. 1961RolePrime Minister of Turkey
  8. 1961 – 1966RolePresident of Turkey
  9. 14 Sept 1966DiedDied in Ankara

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1895 – 1966).

  1. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  2. 1898Spanish–American War
  3. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  4. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  5. 1917Balfour Declaration
  6. 1917February Revolution
  7. 1917October Revolution
  8. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  9. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  10. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  11. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  12. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  13. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  14. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  15. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1938Munich Agreement
  17. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  18. 1939 – 1945World War II
  19. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  20. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  21. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  22. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  23. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  24. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  25. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  26. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  27. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  28. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  29. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  30. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  31. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  32. 1956Suez Crisis
  33. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  35. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  37. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  38. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution

Biography

Cemal Gürsel (13 October 1895 – 14 September 1966) was a Turkish military officer and politician who was the president of Turkey from 1960 to 1966 after taking power in a coup d'état.

Text from the Wikipedia article Cemal Gürsel, CC BY-SA 4.0

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