1985 in Turkey
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Events in the year 1985 in Turkey.[1]
Parliament
Incumbents
- Necdet Calp (up to 27 June)
- Aydın Güven Gürkan (from 27 June)
Ruling party and the main opposition
- Ruling party – Motherland Party (ANAP)
- Main opposition
- People’s Party (HP) (up to 3 November)
- Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP) (from 3 November)
Cabinet
Events
- 1 January – Value added tax (KDV) was imposed
- 26 February – Tarık Akan's film Pehlivan won honourable mention in 35th Berlin International Film Festival
- 12 March – Turkish embessy attack in Ottawa by a group of Armenian militants.
- 2 April – A plane crash over Balıkesir. 15 deaths
- 2 June – Fenerbahçe won the championship of the Turkish football league[2]
- 27 June – Aydın Güven Gürkan defeated Necdet Calp in the general congress of the People’s Party
- 13 July – Ülkü Söylemezoğlu defeated Turgut Sunalp in the general congress of the Nationalist Democracy Party (MDP)
- 7 September – 7 firemen dead during a big forest fire in Kuşadası.
- 20 October – Census (population 50,664,45)
- 2 November – SODEP and People's Party (HP) merged to form Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP)
- 7 November – Heavy rainfall in İstanbul
- 14 November – Democratic Left Party (DSP) was founded
- 18 November – Rahşan Ecevit was elected as the chairperson of DSP
Births
- 12 March – Binnaz Uslu, middle distance runner
- 13 March – Taner Sağır, weightlifter
- 23 April – Emrah Keskin, singer and winner of Türkstar
- 17 August – Sema Apak, short distance runner
Deaths
- 20 September – Ruhi Su (born in 1912), folk singer
- 7 October – Cemal Reşit Rey (born in 1904), composer
- 24 November – Sinan Alaağaç (born 1960), footballer (goalkeeper)
- 29 November – Afet İnan (born in 1908), academic (Atatürk's adoptive daughter)
Gallery
Kenan Evren
Turgut Özal
Binnaz Uslu
Ruhi Su
References
- Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 326–334
- Mackolik page
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