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Events in the year 1999 in Turkey[1]

Parliament

Incumbents
Mesut Yılmaz (up to 11 January)
Bülent Ecevit (from 11 January)
Recai Kutan

Ruling party and the main opposition
  • Ruling party
Motherland Party (ANAP) with coalition partners Democratic Left Party (DSP) and Democrat Turkey Party (DTP) (up to 11 January)
Democratic Left Party (DSP) (11 January-28 May)
Democratic Left Party (DSP) with coalition partners Motherland Party (ANAP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) (from 28 May)
  • Main opposition
Virtue Party (FP)

Cabinet

Events
  • 11 January – Bülent Ecevit formed a minority government
  • 15–16 February – Abdullah Öcalan, was arrested in Kenya[2]
  • 18 April – The General election (DSP 136 seats, MHP 129 seats, FP 11 seats, ANAP 86 seats, True Path Party (DYP) 85 seats. The oldest and most established party, the Republican People's Party (CHP), wasn’t able to receive the 10% necessary to enter parliament.)
  • 22 April – CHP president Deniz Baykal resigned
  • 23 April – Altan Öymen was elected as the new president of CHP
  • 2 May – Merve Kavakçı was protested in the parliament
  • 30 May – Galatasaray won the championship of the Turkish football league[3]
  • 31 May – Abdullah Öcalan’s trial
  • 17 August – The 7.6 Mw  İzmit earthquake shook northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 17,118–17,127 dead and 43,953–50,000 injured.
  • 12 November – The 7.2 Mw  Düzce earthquake shook northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 845–894 dead and 4,948 injured.
  • 11 December – During the European Union summit in Helsinki, Turkey’s future membership was approved

Deaths
  • Süleyman Demirel
  • Bülent Ecevit
  • Recai Kutan
  • Merve Kavakçı

See also

References
  1. Online chronology (in Turkish)
  2. Sina Akşin: Kısa Türkiye Tarihi, Türkiye İş Bankası yayınları, İstanbul, 2011, ISBN 978-9944-88-172-2 p.305
  3. Mackolik page
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