Republic Day (Turkey) status of the nation as a republic was declared and its official name was proclaimed to be ("the Republic of Turkey"). After that, a vote was held in the Grand National Assembly, and Atatürk was elected as the first President of the Republic of Turkey. Republic Day (Turkey) The Republic Day of Turkey () is one of the public holidays in Turkey commemorating the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey in 1923. It lasts 35 hours, starting each year at 1:00 pm on 28 October. The holiday commemorates the events of 29 October 1923, when Mustafa Kemal Atatürk declared that
Toumazou v. Republic of Turkey Kocinski, Pat Clarke and Suz Latchford who paid for but have never been given legal title to the villas that they purchased. The named defendants were HSBC Bank USA, N.A., HSBC Group, HSBC Holdings PLC, Mehmet Ali Talat, and TRNC. Turkey was dropped as defendant on 16 February 2010 and the lawsuit name was subsequently revised to "Toumazou et al v. Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus". On 30 September 2014, the court dismissed the case with prejudice for lack of jurisdiction. Toumazou v. Republic of Turkey Toumazou et al. v. Republic of Turkey et al., was a class action suit