← 1961 1960 1959 1962 in Turkey → 1963 1964 1965
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
See also:	List of years in Turkey

Events in the year 1962 in Turkey.^[1]

• 12th Parliament of Turkey

• President – Cemal Gürsel
• Prime Minister – İsmet İnönü
• Leader of the opposition

Ekrem Alican (up to 25 June)

Ragıp Gümüşpala (from 25 June)

• Ruling party – Republican People's Party (CHP) (up to 25 June with Justice Party (AP), and then with New Turkey Party (YTP) and Republican Villagers Nation Party (CKMP)
• Main opposition

New Turkey Party (YTP) (up tp 25 June)

Justice Party (AP) (from 25 June)

• 26th government of Turkey (up to 25 June)
• 27th government of Turkey (from 25 June)

• 22 February – Coup attempt led by Colonel Talat Aydemir fails.
• 22 May – Crisis in the government concerning amnesty law
• 27 May – First Nuclear (test) reactor of Turkey in Küçükçekmece, a suburb of Istanbul
• 15 June – When most of CKMP members voted to participate in the new government, Osman Bölükbaşı, the chairman of the Party, resigns and founds another party Nation Party (MP)
• 16 June – Galatasaray won the championship of Turkish football league.^[2]
• 26 August – U.S. vice president Lyndon B. Johnson visits Turkey.

• 20 February – Hatice Aslan, theatre actress
• 3 April – Taner Yıldız, politician
• 7 July – Sırrı Süreyya Önder, film director and politician
• 12 September – Sunay Akın, journalist and TV host
• 14 September Nihat Ergün, politician

• 24 January – Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (aged 61), novelist
• 22 March – Hüsrev Gerede (aged 78), retired officier, diplomat and politician
• 27 August – Reşit Süreyya Gürsey (aged 73), MD, scientist and poet
• 14 September – Fuat Bulca (aged 81), retired officer and politician

• 
  Cemal Gürsel
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  İsmet İnönü
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  Taner Yıldız
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  Sırrı Süreyya Önder
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  Hüsrev Gerede
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  Fuat Bulca

• 1961–62 Milli Lig