1990 in Turkey
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Events in the year 1990 in Turkey.[1]
Parliament
[edit]Incumbents
[edit]Ruling party and the main opposition
[edit]- Ruling party – Motherland Party (ANAP)
- Main opposition – Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP)
Cabinet
[edit]Events
[edit]January
[edit]- 12 January – Pegasus Airlines, low-cost carrier founded.
May
[edit]- 1 May – May Day events result in 1,100 arrests.[2]
- 17 May – Democratic Center Party of Bedrettin Dalan established.[2]
- 20 May – Beşiktaş wins the championship[3]
June
[edit]- 4 June – Turkish United Communist Party founded.[2]
- 7 June – People's Toiling Party founded.[2]
August
[edit]- 8 August – In the aftermath of the Invasion of Kuwait, Turkey closes the pipeline carrying Iraqi oil to the Mediterranean.[2]
September
[edit]- 18 September – Turkey and the United States extend their Defense and Economic Cooperation Agreement.[2]
October
[edit]- 21 October – Census (population 56,473,005)
November
[edit]December
[edit]- 3 December – Chief of general staff General Necip Torumtay resigns.[2]
- 5 December – Parliament votes to establish Parliamentary Human Rights Commission.[2]
- 19 December – Government asks NATO for military assistance along the border with Iraq.[2]
Births
[edit]- 14 February – Sefa Yılmaz, footballer
- 17 March – Merve Aydın, middle-distance runner
- 3 May – Burcu Ayhan, high jumper
- 16 July – Büşra Cansu, volleyball player
- 21 November – Bülent Uzun, footballer
Deaths
[edit]- 9 January – Cemal Süreya (born in 1931), poet
- 31 January – Muammer Aksoy (born in 1917), academic (assassinated)
- 7 March – Çetin Emeç (born in 1935), journalist (assassinated)
- 20 August – Ayla Dikmen (born in 1944), singer
- 4 September – Turan Dursun (born in 1934), author, theologist (assassinated)
- 6 October – Bahriye Üçok (born 1919), academic, politician (assassinated)
- 3 November – Kenan Erim (born in 1929), archaeologist
- 11 November – Sadi Irmak (born in 1904), MD and prime minister (38th government of Turkey)
- 24 November – Bülent Arel (born in 1919), musician (electronic)
Gallery
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Sefa Yılmaz
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Büşra Cansu
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Statue of
Bahriye Üçok
