Events in the year 1982 in Turkey.Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 304–309
Incumbents President – Kenan Evren Prime Minister – Bülent Ulusu
Ruling party Ruling party – (Technocrat government)
Cabinet 44th government of Turkey
Events
January 9 January – The flow direction of sea traffic in Bosporus was changed from left to right. 28 January – Turkish diplomat Kemal Arıkan assassinated by Armenian terrorists in Los Angeles.
April 8 April – Romanian–Turkish Economic Cooperation protocol signed. 10 April – Bülent Ecevit arrested for an article he wrote. 23 April The national broadcaster TRT broadcasts in color. 26 April – Second arrest of Ecevit, for a letter he wrote to a journalist.
May 4 May – Turkish diplomatic Orhan Gündüz was assassinated by Armenian terrorists in Boston.
June 2 June – Ecevit is acquitted of all charges relating to 10 April arrest. 7 June – Turkish diplomatic Erkut Akbay and his wife Nadide Akbay assassinated by Armenian terrorists in Lisbon. 13 June – Beşiktaş wins the championship
July 23 July – Turkey and Greece sign an accord.
August 4 August – NSC lifts some of the restrictions on political expression. 7 August – Armenian terrorists kill eight civilians in the Esenboğa International Airport attack. 27 August – Turkish diplomat Atilla Altıkat assassinated by Armenian terrorists in Ottawa.
September 9 September – Turkish diplomat in Bulgaria Bora Süelkan assassinated by Armenian terrorists in Burgas.
October 15 October – Turkish novelist Yaşar Kemal wins the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca.
November 7 November: 91 percent approve the new constitution in a national referendum. 16 November: Prime Minister Bülend Ulusu and Soviet prime minister Nikolai Tikhonov meet in Moscow. 29 November: Turkey and United States plan improvements to ten airfields in Turkey.
December 15 December: Turkey and China sign an economic accord.
Births 16 January – Tuncay, footballer 4 March – Yasemin Mori, singer 12 August – Meryem Uzerli, actress 26 August – Gamze Özçelik, model and TV artist 11 September – Elvan Abeylegesse, track athlete 2 October – Esra Gümüş, volleyball player 2 November – Serkan Yalçın, footballer 8 December – Halil Altıntop and Hamit Altıntop, footballers
Deaths 28 January – Kemal Arıkan, consul (assassinated) 9 April – Turan Güneş (born 1922), politician 4 May – Orhan Gündüz, consul (assassinated) 22 May – Cevdet Sunay (born 1899), army general and politician 27 August – Atilla Altıkat (born 1937), military attaché (assassinated) 4 November – Burhan Felek (born 1899), journalist
Gallery
See also Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 1982 1981–82 1.Lig
References