2004 in Turkey

Governors

• Adana: Cahit Kıraç
• Adıyaman: Halil Işık
• Afyonkarahisar: Muzaffer Dilek
• Ağrı: Hüseyin Atak
• Aksaray: Hüseyin Avni Coş
• Amasya: Erhan Tanju
• Ankara: Kemal Önal
• Antalya: Alaaddin Yüksel
• Ardahan: Murat Yıldırım
• Artvin: M. Selahattin Aparcı
• Aydın: Mustafa Malay
• Balıkesir: Selahattin Hatipoğlu
• Bartın: Fatih Eryılmaz
• Batman: Halil İbrahim Daşöz
• Bayburt: Asaf Hacımustafaoğlu
• Bilecik: Ayhan Çevik
• Bingöl: Vehbi Avuç
• Bitlis: Aslan Kütükçü
• Bolu: Ali Serindağ
• Burdur: Can Direkçi
• Bursa: Nihat Canpolat
• Çanakkale: Orhan Kırlı
• Çankırı: Ali Haydar Öner
• Çorum: Hüseyin Poroy
• Denizli: Recep Yazıcıoğlu
• Diyarbakır: Nusret Miroğlu (left office in September 2004) / Efkan Ala (assumed office in September 2004)
• Düzce: Fuat Gürel
• Edirne: Nusret Miroğlu (assumed office in September 2004)
• Elazığ: Kadir Çakır
• Erzincan: Ali Güngör
• Erzurum: Celalettin Güvenç
• Eskişehir: Kadir Çalışkan
• Gaziantep: Lütfullah Bilgin
• Giresun: Şükrü Kocatepe
• Gümüşhane: Veysel Dalmaz
• Hakkari: Ayhan Nasuhbeyoğlu
• Hatay: Ahmet Kayhan
• Iğdır: Halil Ulusoy
• Isparta: Isa Parlak
• İstanbul: Muammer Güler
• İzmir: Oğuz Kağan Köksal
• Kahramanmaraş: Ilhan Atış
• Karabük: Muzaffer Ecemiş
• Karaman: Hasan Basri Güzeloğlu
• Kars: Nevzat Turhan
• Kastamonu: Must Kara
• Kayseri: Osman Güneş
• Kırıkkale: Ali Kolat
• Kırklareli: Hüseyin Avni Coş
• Kırşehir: Selahattin Hatipoğlu
• Kilis: Aslan Kütükçü
• Kocaeli: Gökhan Sözer
• Konya: Ahmet Kayhan
• Kütahya: Şükrü Kocatepe
• Malatya: Osman Derya Kadıoğlu
• Manisa: Refik Arslan Öztürk
• Mardin: Temel Koçaklar
• Mersin: Atilla Osmançelebioğlu
• Muğla: Lütfi Yiğenoğlu
• Muş: İlker Gündüzöz
• Nevşehir: Alaattin Turhan
• Niğde: Gazi Şimşek
• Ordu: Said Vakkas Gözlügöl
• Osmaniye: Ali Yerlikaya
• Rize: Enver Salihoğlu
• Sakarya: M. Cahit Kıraç
• Samsun: Mustafa Demir
• Siirt: Nuri Okutan
• Sinop: Zeki Şanal
• Sivas: Hasan Canpolat
• Şanlıurfa: Yusuf Yavaşcan
• Şırnak: Osman Güneş
• Tekirdağ: Cengiz Aydoğdu
• Tokat: Ayhan Nasuhbeyoğlu
• Trabzon: Aslan Yıldırım (left office in September 2004) / Hüseyin Yavuzdemir (assumed office in September 2004)
• Tunceli: Mustafa Erkal
• Uşak: Ali Fuat Atik
• Van: Niyazi Tanılır
• Yalova: Yusuf Erbay
• Yozgat: Gökhan Sözer
• Zonguldak: Yavuz Erkmen

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

• May 18 - Çetin Alp, singer (b. 1947)
• May 29 - Kâni Karaca, religious singer (b. 1930)

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)