Events in the year 1989 in Turkey.Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 367–377
Parliament 18th Parliament of Turkey
Incumbents President – Kenan Evren (up to 9 November) Turgut Özal (from 9 November) Prime Minister – Turgut Özal (up to 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
June 11 June – Some 2,000 Bulgarian Turks deported to Turkey following forced name changes. 11 June – Fenerbahçe wins the championship of the championshipMackolik page 15 June – 4 new provinces established: Aksaray, Bayburt, Karaman and Kırıkkale
September 17 September – Central Bank announces that rescheduled foreign debts have been repaid.
October 21 October – Two Syrian warplanes shoot down a civil cartography plane within Turkey, killing five. 31 October – Parliament elects Prime Minister Turgut Özal as President.
September 17 September – Weightlifter Naim Süleymanoğlu wins 4 gold medals in the Athens World Weightlifting Championships.
November 9 November – President Turgut Özal appoints Yıldırım Akbulut as the new prime minister. 17 November – Yıldırım Akbulut elected chairman of Motherland Party. 29 November – Turkey approves European Social Charter.
December 8 December – The United Communist Party announces its intention to regain its legal status.
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 17 May - Kadir Korkut, poet and writer 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 8 November - Can Yaman, actor 10 December – İlknur Melis Durası, engineer and model
Deaths
January January 12 - Adil Candemir, wrestler (b. 1917) January 20 Mete Adanır, footballer (b. 1961) Muzaffer Badalıoğlu, footballer (b. 1960)
February February 15 - Hüseyin Akbaş, wrestler (b. 1933)
March March 6 - Fecri Ebcioğlu, songwriter and composer, (b. 1929) March 13 - Fahrettin Özdilek, military officer, politician and interim Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1898)
April - June April 16 - Hakkı Yeten, footballer, football manager and sports executive (b. 1910) April 18 Adil Atan, wrestler (b. 1929) Candan Tarhan, footballer and football manager (b. 1942) June 24 – Saadet Çağatay, turkologist, professor and writer(b. 1907)
July July 15 - Nesuhi Ertegün, record producer and executive of Atlantic Records (b. 1925)
August August 14 – Bergen, singer (b. 1959)
September September 13 – İsmail Rüştü Aksal, civil servant and politician (b. 1911) September 21 – Ertem Eğilmez, film director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1929)
October - December October 9 – Yusuf Atılgan, novelist (b. 1921) December 15 – Ali Şen, actor (b. 1918)
Gallery
See also Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 1989 1988–89 1.Lig
References