Events in the year 1928 in Turkey.^[1]

• 3rd Parliament of Turkey

• President – Kemal Atatürk
• Prime Minister – İsmet İnönü

• Ruling party – Republican People's Party (CHP)

• 5th government of Turkey

• 3 February – First hutbe in Turkish
• 10 April – State declared secular. ( see Secularism in Turkey)
• 31 March – Earthquake around Torbalı (west Anatolia)
• 23 May – Turkish citizenship law
• 28 June – Nation schools (Turkish: Millet mektebi) a project to increase the literacy rate
• 26 June – An academic committee to research on the adoptation of Latin alphabet to Turkish language
• 9 August – Kemal Atatürk announced that Turkish alphabet (a version of Latin alphabet, devoid of q, w and x and with the addition of ç, ş, ğ, ı, ö and ü) will replace the traditional Arabic alphabet in Turkish language. This is considered as a major step in the modernization of Turkey)
• 3 November: Latin alphabet adopted.
• 1 December: Latin alphabet law takes effect.
• 10 December – Surname law (up to 1928 people had no surnames and instead of surnames their place of birth was in use)

• 6 January – İsmet Sezgin, politician (d. 2016)
• 28 February – Kuzgun Acar, sculptor (d. 1976)
• 5 April – Haldun Dormen, theatre actor (d. 2026)
• 30 June – Orhan Boran, standup actor (d. 2012)
• 16 August – Ara Güler, photographer (d. 2018)
• 10 October – Leyla Gencer, operatic soprano (d. 2008)
• 11 October – Yıldız Kenter, theatre actress (d. 2019)

• 👁 Kemal Atatürk
  
  Kemal Atatürk
• 👁 İsmet İnönü
  
  İsmet İnönü
• 👁 Haldun Dormen
  
  Haldun Dormen
• 👁 Ara Güler
  
  Ara Güler

• Turkey at the 1928 Summer Olympics