1989 in Turkey

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Events in the year 1989 in Turkey.

Parliament

• 18th Parliament of Turkey

Incumbents

• President -

Kenan Evren (up to 9 November)

Turgut Özal (from 9 November)

• Prime Minister -

Turgut Özal (up tp 9 November)

Yıldırım Akbulut (from 9 November)

• Leader of the opposition - Erdal İnönü

Ruling party and the main opposition

• Ruling party –Motherland Party (ANAP)
• Main opposition - Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP)

Cabinet

• 46th government of Turkey (up to 9 November)
• 47th government of Turkey (from 9 November)

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
• 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

• 1 January - Fatih Avan, javelin thrower
• 27 January - Melek Hu (Naturalized citizen), table tennis player
• 28 January - Gamze Tazim, actress
• 9 February - Deniz Aslan, footballer
• 22 February - Gülşah Gümüşay, basketball player
• 21 May - Gülcan Mıngır, middle distance runner
• 5 July - Dilara Buse Günaydın, swimmer
• 10 September - Tolga Ünlü, footballer
• 28 September - Çağla Büyükakçay, tennis player
• 10 October - Rıza Kayaalp, wrestler
• 29 October - Leyla Tuğutlu, model and beauty pageant contestant
• 10 December -İlknur Melis Durası, engineer and model

Deaths

• 15 February- Hüseyin Akbaş (born 1933), wrestker
• 6 March - Fecri Ebcioğlu (born in 1927), DJ and lyricist
• 16 April - Hakkı Yeten (born in 1910) footballer and coach
• 14 August -Bergen Sarılmışer (born in 1959), singer
• 13 September - İsmail Rüştü Aksal ( born in 1911), civil sevant, politician
• 21 September - Ertem Eğilmez (born in 1929), film director
• 9 October - Yusuf Atılgan (born in 1921), novelist

Gallery

• Turgut Özal (cropped).jpg

  Turgut Özal

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  Bülent Ecevit

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  Naim Süleymanoğlu (Paraguay stamp)

• 2012-06-07 Bislett Games Fatih Avan01.jpg

  Fatih Avan

• Mondial Ping -Women's Singles - Quarterfinal - Melek Hu-Liu Shiwen - 26 (cropped).jpg

  Melek Hu

• Gamze Tazim2.jpg

  Melek Tazim

• Gülcan Mingir Ostrava 2011.jpg

  Gülcan Mıngır

• Tolga ünlü.JPG

  Tolga Ünlü

• Buyukakcay WMQ14 (12) (14605034544).jpg

  Çağla Büyükakçay

• Rıza Kayaalp.jpg

  Rıza Kayaalp

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  Leyla Tuğutlu

• Ilknurmelisdurasi.jpg

  İlknur Melis Durası

See also

• Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 1989
• 1988–89 1.Lig