Public holidays in Turkey 2026

14 public holidays: 4 on a weekend, 4 bridge days

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February

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April

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September

October

November

December

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Vacation day
Adjacent day off

Public holidays in Turkey

14 public holidays

1 JanNew Year's Day · Thursday
20 MarEid al-Fitr First Day · Friday
21 MarEid al-Fitr Second Day · Saturday
22 MarEid al-Fitr Third Day · Sunday
23 AprNational Sovereignty and Children's Day · Thursday
1 MayLabour Day · Friday
19 MayCommemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day · Tuesday
27 MayEid al-Adha First Day · Wednesday
28 MayEid al-Adha Second Day · Thursday
29 MayEid al-Adha Third Day · Friday
30 MayEid al-Adha Fourth Day · Saturday
15 JulDemocracy and National Unity Day · Wednesday
30 AugVictory Day · Sunday
29 OctRepublic Day · Thursday

Bridge days in Turkey

One day of leave, four days off — outlined in dashed red in the calendar.

2 January 2026Fridaythe day after New Year's Day
24 April 2026Fridaythe day after National Sovereignty and Children's Day
18 May 2026Mondaythe day before Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day
30 October 2026Fridaythe day after Republic Day

When to take leave in Turkey

What one, two or three days of leave get you:

1 day of leave6 days off26 May – 31 May 2026
2 days of leave9 days off23 May – 31 May 2026
3 days of leave10 days off22 May – 31 May 2026

Act No. 2429 keeps the calendar in two articles. Republic Day opens at 13.00 on the 28th of October and runs through the 29th; three official festivals and three ordinary holidays stand in two lists beside it; and the bayram are written in with their lengths — Ramazan three and a half days from one o'clock on the eve, Kurban four and a half — so the half-day eve, the arife, is itself statutory. 1 May arrived by amendment in 2009 and Democracy and National Unity Day in 2016. A holiday that falls on a weekend stays there: nothing in the statute moves it or pays it back, and its one clause where a holiday and the weekend meet gives rather than takes — when a holiday ends on a Friday evening, the whole of the following Saturday is off, a Saturday being otherwise a half working day.

The bayram dates are calculated rather than waited for, and published many years ahead: Diyanet draws its calendars on whether the new crescent could be seen anywhere on earth, which is why countries that ask instead whether it could be seen from their own sky keep the same festival a day apart. The schools keep one national working calendar, issued afresh each year — the 2026-27 circular went out under the Minister of National Education's signature to all eighty-one provinces — and so the country keeps a single set of term dates.