Ruler · 1895 – 1966

Cemal Gürsel

Lived 1895 – 1966; politician, military officer. President of Turkey (Turkey), 1961 – 1966.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 1895 – 1966; 71 years
In office: 5 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Turkey
Left it: died in office; Wikidata's manner of death

President of Turkey

Turkey · the 5th of 17 dated reigns · 1923 – 2014

1 before

Abdülhalik Renda1938

İsmet İnönü1938 – 1950

Celâl Bayar1950 – 1960

Cemal Gürsel1961 – 1966

İbrahim Şevki Atasagun1966

Cevdet Sunay1966 – 1973

Tekin Arıburun1973

9 after

deposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recordthis entry

Reigned 1961 – 1966 · 5 years · came to it aged 66

Left it: died in officeWikidata's manner of death: natural causes; stroke

Open in the atlas

Cemal Gürsel in the atlas: the article, every line they sat in, and the map in their years.
Analyse the succession of Turkey: every reign, how each ended, and the numbers over them.
States of Middle East and North Africa, and every state with a page.

Wikidata Q159161 (CC0) · the reigns from Wikidata's P39 terms, the rulers' own articles read by grammar (sentences quoted above, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Kokkonen & Sundell where they code the line · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.