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Events in the year 1998 in Turkey.[1]

Parliament

Incumbents
Necmettin Erbakan (up to 16 January)
Recai Kutan (from 14 May)

Ruling party and the main opposition
  • Ruling party
Motherland Party (ANAP) with coalition partners Democratic Left Party (DSP) and Democrat Turkey Party (DTP)
  • Main opposition
Welfare Party (RP) (up to 16 January)
Virtue Party (from 14 May)

Cabinet

Events
  • 3 January – First Wind farm of Turkey in İzmir Province
  • 17 January – Welfare Party (main party of the 54th government of Turkey) was closed by the court
  • 17 February – First female military pilots graduated from the military academy
  • 10 May – Galatasaray won the championship of the Turkish football league[2]
  • 27 June – The 6.3 Mw  Adana–Ceyhan earthquake shook the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving at least 145 dead and 1,500–1,600 injured.
  • 1 July – Agreement with the International Money Fund
  • 18 August – Operation against the Turkish mafia. Subsequently, relations between some politicians and mafia were revealed
  • 16 September – Atilla Ateş, the land forces commander, accused Syria of "hosting terrorists."[3]
  • 6 November – High court deposed Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the future prime minister, as İstanbul Mayor [4]

Deaths
  • Süleyman Demirel
  • Necmettin Erbakan
  • Recai Kutan
  • Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
  • Erol Taş
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See also

References
  1. Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 505–511
  2. Mackolik page
  3. Hürriyet newspaper
  4. Vowturkey
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