The following lists events in the year 2013 in Turkey.

Incumbents

* President: Abdullah Gül * Prime Minister:

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician serving as the List of presidents of Turkey, 12th and current president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as prime minister of Turkey from 2003 to 2014 and as Lis ...

* Speaker:

Cemil Çiçek Cemil Çiçek (; born 15 November 1946) is a Turkish politician who was the Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey between 4 July 2011 and 7 June 2015. Previously he was Minister of Justice from 2002 to 2007 and Deputy Prime Minister from 2007 to ...

Events

January

*7 January - An explosion at a coal mine in the Zonguldak province kills eight miners. *17 January - Thousands of Kurds pour into the streets of Diyarbakır to mourn the death of Sakine Cansız, the founder of the

Kurdistan Workers' Party The Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement, which historically operated throughout Kurdistan, but is now primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of south ...

, who was killed in Paris, France on the 9th.

February

*1 February - The United States embassy is bombed in the capital of Ankara, killing 2 people. *2 February - Radical leftist group Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front claims responsibility for yesterday's bombing.

March

*13 March - Kurdish rebels free eight Turkish citizens who have been held captive for two years. *19 March - Two people are injured in bombings on Turkey's justice ministry and headquarters of the governing AK Party in Ankara. This was allegedly done by Kurdish militants. *21 March - PKK leader

Abdullah Öcalan Abdullah Öcalan ( ; ; born 4 April 1949), also known as Apo (short for Abdullah in Turkish and Kurdish for "uncle"), is a political prisoner and founding member of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Öcalan was based in Syria from ...

makes historic calls for peace talks with Turkey after nearly 30 years of violent conflict. *22 March - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologises to Prime Minister Erdogan for the killing of nine activists in a raid on Gaza and the US reports they are normalising relations.

April

*7 April - US Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Turkey where discussions over relations with Israel and the Syrian civil war are expected to take place.

May

*20 May - A hot air balloon crashes in Cappadocia resulting in 2 tourists dying and another 20 injured. *31 May - Protesters are violently removed by riot police in Gezi Park, Taksim Square, Istanbul after days of anti-government unrest based on government attempts in making the country more religious.

June

*3 June - Riot police fire tear gas on protesters continuing to demand the downfall of the current government in Istanbul and Ankara.

Deaths

*22 February – Behsat Üvez, singer-songwriter, 53 (lung cancer) *20 September – Ercan Aktuna *29 September – İsmet Kür (born 1916), educator, journalist, columnist and writer *25 December – Adnan Şenses

References

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