Republic Day
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National Day of Turkey and public holiday in Turkey and Northern Cyprus
Key facts
- Official name
- Cumhuriyet Bayramı ( Turkish )
- Also called
- The twenty-ninth of October ( Turkish : Yirmi Dokuz Ekim )
- Observed by
- Turkey , Northern Cyprus
- Type
- National
- Significance
- The day in 1923 that the republic was proclaimed by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
- Celebrations
- Fireworks , concerts , parades , events at schools, cultural programmes
- Date
- 29 October
- Next time
- 29 October 2026 ( 2026-10-29 )
- Frequency
- Annual
- First time
- 1923 ; 103 years ago ( 1923 )
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Encyclopedic overview
Republic Day (Turkish: Cumhuriyet Bayramı) is a public holiday in Turkey commemorating the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey, on 29 October 1923. The annual celebrations start at 1:00 pm on 28 October and continue for 35 hours.
Background
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Republic Day” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.