2018 in Turkey

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Events in the year 2018 in Turkey.

Incumbents

• President: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
• Prime Minister: Binali Yıldırım
• Speaker of the Grand National Assembly: İsmail Kahraman

Events

• 13 January – The Pegasus Airlines Flight 8622 accident
• 13 May – President Tayyip Erdogan has announces to infrastructure Airport on "Mega-schemes", and critics has warned that it will destroy 8,500 year old archaeological historic site in near Istanbul, that will cause impact environment.^[1]
• 10 June – President Erdogan warned that Austria government will expel Muslim it could lead to war, he said, “These measures taken by the Austrian prime minister are, I fear, leading the world towards a war between the cross and the crescent, They say they're going to kick our religious men out of Austria. Do you think we will not react if you do such a thing? That means we're going to have to do something".^[2]
• 14 October - Road accident left 15 migrants dead in İzmir Province.^[3]

Deaths

Aydın Boysan

Hasan Celal Güzel

• 5 January –
  • Aydın Boysan, architect (b. 1921).^[4]
  • Münir Özkul, actor (b. 1925).^[5]

• 9 January – Yılmaz Onay, writer, theatre director and translator (b. 1937).^[6]

• 7 February – Nabi Şensoy, diplomat (b. 1945).^[7]

• 14 February – Nuray Hafiftaş, folk singer (b. 1964)

• 15 February – Tosun Bayrak, writer (b. 1926)

• 23 February –
  • Ali Teoman Germaner, sculptor (b. 1934).^[8]
  • Celal Şahin, musician and actor (b. 1925)

• 6 March – Muhibbe Darga, archaeologist (b. 1921)

• 8 March – Ercan Yazgan, actor (b. 1946)

• 14 March – Halit Deringör, footballer (b. 1922)

• 19 March – Hasan Celal Güzel, journalist and politician (b. 1945)

• 29 April – Özden Örnek, admiral (b. 1943).^[9]

• 16 May – Salih Mirzabeyoğlu, writer and Islamist leader (b. 1950).^[10]

• 18 May – Doğan Babacan, football referee (b. 1929).^[11]

• 28 May – Semavi Eyice, art historian (b. 1922).^[12]

• 4 June – Canel Konvur, high jumper (b. 1939).^[13]

• 6 June – Ümit Kayıhan, footballer (b. 1954).^[14]

• 28 June – Şarık Tara, executive (Enka) (b. 1930).^[15]

• 30 June – Fuat Sezgin, orientalist (b. 1924)

References