16th government of Turkey

Recep Peker of the Republican People's Party (CHP), who was the previous prime minister, resigned on 9 September 1947 after a harsh discussions in the parliament.

İsmet İnönü, the president, assigned Hasan Saka, a more moderate politician, as the prime minister.

In the list below, the cabinet members who served only a part of the cabinet's lifespan are shown in the column "Notes".

Saka was criticized as too mild to struggle against the Democrat Party opposition.

However, ten days later, he founded his second government.