1985 in Turkey

← 1984 1983 1982 1985 in Turkey → 1986 1987 1988
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
See also:	Years in Turkey

Events in the year 1985 in Turkey.^[1]

Incumbents

• President - Kenan Evren
• Prime Minister - Turgut Özal
• Leader of the opposition

Necdet Calp (up to 27 June)

Aydın Güven Gürkan (from 27 June)

Ruling party and the main opposition

• Ruling party –Motherland Party (ANAP)
• Main opposition

People’s Party (HP) (up to 3 November)

Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP) (from 3 November)

Cabinet

45th government of Turkey

Events

• 1 January- Value added tax (KDV) was imposed
• 26 February - Tarık Akan's film Pehlivan won honourable mention in 35th Berlin International Film Festival
• 12 March – Turkish embessy attack in Ottawa by a group of Armenian militants.
• 2 April – A plane crash over Balıkesir. 15 deaths
• 2 June - Fenerbahçe won the championship of the Turkish football league^[2]
• 27 June – Aydın Güven Gürkan defeated Necdet Calp in the general congress of the People’s Party
• 13 July – Ülkü Söylemezoğlu defeated Turgut Sunalp in the general congress of the Nationalist Democracy Party (MDP)
• 7September - 7 firemen dead during a big forest fire in Kuşadası.
• 20 October – Census (population 50,664,45)
• 2 November – SODEP and People's Party (HP) merged to form Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP)
• 7 November – Heavy rainfall in İstanbul
• 14 November – Democratic Left Party (DSP) was founded
• 18 November - Rahşan Ecevit was elected as the chairperson of DSP

Births

• 22 January- Yasemin Ergene, actress
• 12 March - Binnaz Uslu, middle distance runner
• 13 March - Taner Sağır, weightlifter
• 17 August - Sema Apak, short distance runner

Deaths

• 20 September - Ruhi Su (born in 1912), folk singer
• 7 October - Cemal Reşit Rey (born in 1904), composer
• 29 November - Afet İnan (born in 1908), academic (Atatürk's adoptive daughter)

Gallery

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  Kenan Evren

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  Turgut Özal

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  Binnaz Uslu

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  Ruhi Su

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  Afet İnan (together with Atatürk)

See also

• Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 1984
• 1984–85 1.Lig

References

1. ↑ Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 326-334
2. ↑ Mackolik page

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