1982 in Turkey
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Events in the year 1982 in Turkey.[1]
Incumbents
[edit | edit source]Ruling party
[edit | edit source]- Ruling party – (Technocrat government)
Cabinet
[edit | edit source]Events
[edit | edit source]January
[edit | edit source]- 9 January – The flow direction of sea traffic in Bosporus was changed from left to right.[2]
- 28 January – Turkish diplomat Kemal Arıkan assassinated by Armenian terrorists in Los Angeles.[2]
April
[edit | edit source]- 8 April – Romanian–Turkish Economic Cooperation protocol signed.[2]
- 10 April – Bülent Ecevit arrested for an article he wrote.[2]
- 23 April The national broadcaster TRT broadcasts in color.
- 26 April – Second arrest of Ecevit, for a letter he wrote to a journalist.[2]
May
[edit | edit source]- 4 May – Turkish diplomatic Orhan Gündüz was assassinated by Armenian terrorists in Boston.
June
[edit | edit source]- 2 June – Ecevit is acquitted of all charges relating to 10 April arrest.[2]
- 7 June – Turkish diplomatic Erkut Akbay and his wife Nadide Akbay assassinated by Armenian terrorists in Lisbon.
- 13 June – Beşiktaş wins the championship[3]
July
[edit | edit source]August
[edit | edit source]- 4 August – NSC lifts some of the restrictions on political expression.[2]
- 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
[edit | edit source]- 9 September – Turkish diplomat in Bulgaria Bora Süelkan assassinated by Armenian terrorists in Burgas.
October
[edit | edit source]- 15 October – Turkish novelist Yaşar Kemal wins the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca.
November
[edit | edit source]- 7 November: 91 percent approve the new constitution in a national referendum.[2]
- 16 November: Prime Minister Bülend Ulusu and Soviet prime minister Nikolai Tikhonov meet in Moscow.[2]
- 29 November: Turkey and United States plan improvements to ten airfields in Turkey.[2]
December
[edit | edit source]Births
[edit | edit source]- 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
[edit | edit source]- 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
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Kenan Evren
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Turgut Özal
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Tuncay
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Elvan Abeylegesse
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Esra Gümüş
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Serkan Yalçın
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Halil Altıntop
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Hamit Altıntop
