✦ zenith calendar · the turkey almanac
the national holidays and the feasts, in one quiet layer of your sky, each one explained in its own words.
turkey is one of the holiday almanacs that come with zenith calendar. it holds türkiye's national holidays and general days off as the law fixes them. the ramadan feast and the feast of sacrifice follow the hijri months, with their dates and eves as the official tables publish them; the eves are half days from 13:00.
its dates are copied from published tables, not worked out on your phone. tap a day and read three short paragraphs: what it is, where it comes from, and how it is kept.
gregorian and hijri · the feasts as the official tables publish them
cumhuriyet bayramı
29 october
the national day of türkiye, for the proclamation of the republic on 29 october 1923.
crowds visit anıtkabir, the country is dressed in red and white, parades are held in the morning, and the evening brings concerts and fireworks, the greatest of them over the bosphorus in istanbul.
ramazan bayramı · şeker bayramı
from 1 şevval, when the month of fasting ends
the sugar feast: days of joy and thanks for a month of fasting, prayer and the quran.
the morning begins with the bayram prayer at the mosque, in one's best clothes. the young kiss the hands of their elders, families and neighbours visit one another, and children go door to door and are given sweets and lokum.
ulusal egemenlik ve çocuk bayramı
23 april
it honours the day in 1920 the grand national assembly opened in ankara and the nation took its sovereignty into its own hands, and gives that day to its children.
schools fill stadiums and squares with songs, poems and folk dances, and for the day the president, ministers, governors and mayors give their seats to children.
kurban bayramı
from 10 zilhicce
the feast that honours the prophet ibrahim's readiness to give what he loved most to allah.
the bayram begins with the morning prayer. those who are able offer a sacrifice in the first days of the feast and share the meat among family, neighbours and the poor, and the days are filled with visits to elders and meals with guests.
zenith calendar draws the year as an orbit round the sun. lit, turkey puts its days on their dates on that ring, in pale gold. its mark is its flag, 🇹🇷.
each holiday carries three short paragraphs in its notes: what it is, where it comes from as its own tradition or the country itself tells it, and how it is kept.
on a new install, your phone's own country starts switched on. if your phone's language setting names türkiye as its region, turkey starts lit; anywhere else it waits in the archive, whole.
turkey arrives locked, so nothing in it changes by accident. the lock guards your hand, not your eye: you can still read it, shine it or eclipse it from its chip. one tap unlocks it, and then it is yours to rename, recolour or add to.
turkey shares one sky with your own commitments. like every almanac that comes with the app, it never counts toward the almanacs you can make for free, and it lives on your phone: zenith calendar has no server of its own.
✦ zenith calendar · the sky around it
turkey is a single layer. beneath it is a whole calendar drawn as the sky, your year an orbit round the sun, and every part of it answers your touch.
the sun stands at the centre and the year rings round it, with today's earth riding at today's place, its small moon beside it. tap the ring anywhere else and a faint ghost earth waits on that day.
drag along the ring and the days pass under your finger, the big date and the day's list following as you go. lift, and the day you stopped on stays picked.
tap the small moon beside today's earth and you dive into the week. the moon above shows its phase, named underneath; swipe the dates and each week brings its own.
tap the sun and the ring tips on its edge into a ladder of years. in the week, pull the moon firmly down and the month opens, the moon resting half off its foot.
zenith calendar has no server of its own. tap the gear and switch on "nothing comes in" or "nothing leaves this phone"; lift them, and every almanac is back exactly as it was.
turkey is waiting in the app, and the rest of the sky comes with it.
turkey (national holidays) ·
The Ramadan feast, ramazan bayramı, runs from 9 to 11 March 2027, with its eve on 8 March as a half day from 13:00. In Zenith Calendar it sits on the ring of your year in the turkey almanac.
The feast of sacrifice, kurban bayramı, runs from 16 to 19 May 2027, with its eve on 15 May as a half day from 13:00.
Republic Day, cumhuriyet bayramı, is 29 October every year, so it falls on 29 October 2026. Its eve, 28 October, is a half day.
Zenith Calendar for Android comes with an almanac called turkey: Türkiye's national holidays and the bayrams, drawn on the ring of your year beside your own days. Turning it on costs nothing.
Turkey holds Türkiye's national holidays and the bayram days off as its official tables publish them. Sunni holds the Sunni days of the Hijri year from another published calendar. They are separate almanacs, so you can light either or both.
On a new install, the first page asks which almanacs start lit. If your phone's language setting names Türkiye as its region, the turkey almanac starts switched on; otherwise it waits in the archive until you light it.
They are copied from the law and the official holiday tables, not worked out on your phone.