1972 in Turkey

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Events in the year 1972 in Turkey.[1]

Parliament

Incumbents
Nihat Erim (up to 22 May 1972)
Ferit Melen (from 22 May 1972)

Cabinet

Events
  • 8 February – The documents about the Yenice Conference (Between İsmet İnönü and Winston Churchill in 1943) were disclosed
  • 30 March – a group of People's Liberation Party-Front of Turkey militants headed by Mahir Çayan who had kidnapped two British and one Canadian technician were killed after a gunfight.
  • 7 May – In the kurultay (congress) of the Republican People's Party (CHP) Bülent Ecevit the former secretary general of the party defeated party leader İsmet İnönü.
  • 28 May – Galatasaray won the championship of Turkish football league.[2]
  • 16 July – Patriarch Demetrios I was elected as the new partiarch of İstanbul
  • 4 September – A group of MP s from CHP founded Republican Party
  • 1 October – Turkish boxer Cemal Kamacı won the European championship in 63,5 kg. weight category

Births
  • 29 January – Engin Günaydın, actor and screenwriter
  • 17 October – Tarkan, singer

Deaths
  • Nihat Erim
  • Bülent Ecevit
  • Tarkan
  • Tevfik Rüştü Aras
  • Ulvi Camal Erkin
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See also

References
  1. Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 226–233
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