1979 in Turkey

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See also:	List of years in Turkey

Events in the year 1979 in Turkey.^[1]

Parliament

• 16th Parliament of Turkey

Incumbents

• President – Fahri Korutürk
• Prime Minister –

Bülent Ecevit (up to 12 November)

Süleyman Demirel (from 12 November)

• Leader of the opposition –

Süleyman Demirel (up to 12 November)

Bülent Ecevit (from 12 November)

Ruling party and the main opposition

• Ruling party

Republican People’s Party (CHP) (up to 12 November)

Justice Party (AP) (from 12 November)

• Main opposition

Justice Party (AP) (up to 12 November)

Republican People’s Party (CHP) (from 12 November)

Cabinet

• 42nd government of Turkey (up to 12 November)
• 43rd government of Turkey (from 12 November)

Events

• 3 March – The film Sürü was awarded in the 30th Berlin International Film Festival
• 15 March – Turkey withdrew from Central Eastern Treaty Organization (CENTO), an international organization
• 1 May – Curfew in İstanbul. Violeters were arrested
• 9 May – General protest of the goldsmiths against the government
• 3 June – Trabzonspor won the championship of Turkish football league.^[2]
• 24 May – First Turkish made airplane in Kayseri ( Actually another group of planes were constructed in the 1940s)
• 10 July – Mehmet Ali Ağca, who was charged with the murder of Abdi İpekçi was arrested
• 13 July – Egyptian Embassy in Ankara was raided by a Palestinians group^[3]
• 14 October – By-elections, in which the ruling party CHP was defeated
• 25 November – Mehmet Ali Ağca escaped from the prison

Births

• 15 April – Nezihe Kalkan (Nez), singer
• 23 April – Bengü Erden (Bengü) singer
• 2 May – Yasemin Dalkılıç, female free diver

Deaths

• 1 February – Abdi İpekçi (assassinated at age 49), journalist
• 29 April – Muhsin Ertuğrul (aged 54), theatre actor
• 16 June – Ayhan Işık (aged 50), movie actor
• 12 September – Agop Dilaçar (aged 84), Turkish linguist of Armenian descent
• 28 September – Cevat Yurdakul (assassinated at age 37), prosecutor and police chief of Adana

Gallery

• 
  Bülent Ecevit
• 
  Süleyman Demirel
• 
  Bengü

See also

• 1978–79 1.Lig

References

1. ↑ Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 282–292
2. ↑
3. ↑ Ekşi sözlük (in Turkish)

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