2004 in Turkey
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Incumbents
- Ahmet Necdet Sezer, President, 2000–2007
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister, 2003–2014
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
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)