1989 in Turkey

1989
in
Turkey

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See also:List of years in Turkey

Events in the year 1989 in Turkey.[1]

Parliament

Incumbents

Kenan Evren (up to 9 November)
Turgut Özal (from 9 November)
Turgut Özal (up tp 9 November)
Yıldırım Akbulut (from 9 November)

Ruling party and the main opposition

Cabinet

Events

  • 15 January – Bülent Ecevit was elected as the chairman of DSP for the second time (after Necdet Karababa’s resignation)
  • 26 March – Local elections
  • 29 March – A Turkish MP, Abdurrezzak Ceylan, was shot dead in parliament.
  • 14 May – The Turkish national wrestling team won the second place in European wrestling championship
  • 29 May – A Soviet Mig 29 was hijacked to Trabzon
  • 11 June – Some 2,000 Bulgarian Turks were deported to Turkey after being ethnically cleansed from Bulgaria
  • 11 June – Fenerbahçe won the championship of the Turkish football league[2]
  • 15 June – 4 new provinces (Turkish: il) established: Aksaray, Bayburt, Karaman, and Kırıkkale
  • 17 Septembel – Weightlifter Naim Süleymanoğlu won 4 gold medals in the Athens World Weightlifting Championships
  • 21 October – Two Syrian warplanes shot down a civil cartography plane within Turkey, killing five.
  • 31 October – Prime Minister Turgut Özal was elected as the new president (effective on 9 November); Ali Bozer was appointed as the acting prime minister
  • 9 November – The new president appointed Yıldırım Akbulut as the new prime minister

Births

Deaths

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See also

References

  1. Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 367–377
  2. Mackolik page
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