Events in the year 1971 in Turkey.

Parliament

14th Parliament of Turkey The 14th Grand National Assembly of Turkey existed from 11 October 1969 to 14 October 1973. There were 450 MPs in the lower house. Justice Party (Turkey), Justice Party (AP) held the majority and the Republican People's Party (CHP) was the main oppo ...

Incumbents

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television *'' Præsident ...

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Cevdet Sunay Ahmet Cevdet Sunay (10 February 1899 – 22 May 1982) was a Turkish politician and military officer who served as the fifth president of Turkey from 1966 to 1973. Early life and career Sunay was born in 1899 in the village of Ataköy nea ...

Prime Minister A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state, but r ...

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Süleyman Demirel Sami Süleyman Gündoğdu Demirel (; 1 November 1924 – 17 June 2015) was a Turkish people, Turkish politician, engineer, and statesman who served as the List of Presidents of Turkey, 9th President of Turkey from 1993 to 2000. He previously serv ...

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Nihat Erim İsmail Nihat Erim (30 November 1912 – 19 July 1980) was a Turkish politician and jurist. He served as the 13th prime minister of Turkey for almost 14 months after the 1971 Turkish military memorandum. He was assassinated by the Revolutionary ...

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Leader of the opposition The Leader of the Opposition is a title traditionally held by the leader of the Opposition (parliamentary), largest political party not in government, typical in countries utilizing the parliamentary system form of government. The leader of the ...

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İsmet İnönü Mustafa İsmet İnönü (24 September 1884 – 25 December 1973) was a Turkish politician and military officer who served as the second List of Presidents of Turkey, president of Turkey from 1938 to 1950, and as its Prime Minister of Turkey, pr ...

(up to 26 March 1971)

Ruling party and the main opposition

*Ruling party – Justice Party (AP) (up to 26 March 1971) *Main opposition –

Republican People's Party The Republican People's Party (RPP; , CHP ) is a Kemalism, Kemalist and Social democracy, social democratic political party in Turkey. It is the oldest List of political parties in Turkey, political party in Turkey, founded by Mustafa Kemal ...

(CHP) (up to 26 March 1971)

Cabinet

32nd government of Turkey The 32nd government of Turkey (6 March 1970 – 26 March 1971) was a significant administration in Turkish history. It is also referred as ''the third Demirel government''. Background Justice Party (AP) had the majority in the parliament, but ...

(up to 26 March 1971) *

33rd government of Turkey The 33rd government of Turkey (26 March 1971 – 11 December 1971) was a government in the history of Turkey. It is also called the First Erim government. Background After the memorandum of the army on 12 March 1971, prime minister Süleyman De ...

(26 March 1971 – 11 December 1971) *

34th government of Turkey The 34th government of Turkey (11 December 1971 – 22 May 1972) was a government in the history of Turkey. It is also called ''the second Erim government''. Background Eleven members of the previous government, resigned claiming that they coul ...

(from 11 December 1971)

Events

* 20 January –

Middle East Technical University Middle East Technical University (commonly referred to as METU; in Turkish language, Turkish, ''Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi'', ODTÜ) is a prestigious public university, public Institute of technology, technical university located in Ankara, ...

closes following student unrest. * 21 March – CHP secretary general

Bülent Ecevit Mustafa Bülent Ecevit (; 28 May 1925 – 5 November 2006) was a Turkish politician, statesman, poet, writer, scholar, and journalist. He served as the Prime Minister of Turkey four times between 1974 and 2002. He served as prime minister in 197 ...

resigns from his position because of

’s support of the new government. * 7 April –

forms a government. * 27 April – Martial law declared; student associations banned. * 13 May – Bingöl earthquake * 21 May –

Constitutional Court A constitutional court is a high court that deals primarily with constitutional law. Its main authority is to rule on whether laws that are challenged are in fact unconstitutional, i.e. whether they conflict with constitutionally established ru ...

closes down National Order Party for anti-secular propaganda. * 6 June –

Galatasaray Galatasaray Spor Kulübü (, ''Galatasaray Sports Club''), more commonly referred to as simply Galatasaray and familiarly as Cimbom, is a Turkish sports club based on the European side of the city of Istanbul including basketball, wheelchair ...

wins the

Turkish Turkish may refer to: * Something related to Turkey ** Turkish language *** Turkish alphabet ** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation *** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey *** Turkish communities in the former Ottoman Empire * The w ...

championship. * 20 July –

bans the Labor Party. * 19 September –

Filiz Vural Filiz Vural (born 1953) is a former Turkish beauty contestant and Miss Europe 1971. She participated at a beauty pageant organized by the newspaper ''Hürriyet'', and won the title Miss Turkey 1970. The next year, she represented her country at t ...

wins the

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. * 20 September – Parliament amends the constitution. * 6 October–17 October –

Mediterranean Games The Mediterranean Games is a multi-sport event organised by the International Committee of Mediterranean Games (CIJM). It is held every four years among athletes from countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea in Africa, Asia and Europe. The fi ...

take place in

İzmir İzmir is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara. It is on the Aegean Sea, Aegean coast of Anatolia, and is the capital of İzmir Province. In 2024, the city of İzmir had ...

. * 12 October – U.S. vice president

Spiro Agnew Spiro Theodore Agnew (; November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996) was the 39th vice president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1973. He is the second of two vice presidents to resign, the first being John C. ...

visits

Ankara Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and List of national capitals by area, the largest capital by area in the world. Located in the Central Anatolia Region, central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5,290,822 in its urban center ( ...

. * 18 October –

Queen Elizabeth II Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 19268 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II, her death in 2022. ...

visits Turkey. * 3 December – Vice Prime Minister

Atilla Karaosmanoğlu Atilla Karaosmanoğlu (20 September 1932 – 11 November 2013) was a Turkish economist and politician. Background Karosmanoğlu was born in Manisa, Turkey in 1931. After graduating from the Faculty of Political Sciences of Ankara University in ...

and 10 other government ministers resign, ending the 33rd government.

Births

*1 January –

Emrah İpek Emrah Erdoğan İpek (born January 1, 1971) is a Turkish singer, actor and child star during 1980's from Turkey. Life and career He was born in Diyarbakır and is of Kurdish descent. he professionally entered the music world with his album ' ...

(Emrah), singer *25 January –

Elif Şafak Elif Shafak ( ; née Bilgin; born 25 October 1971) is a Turkish-British novelist, essayist, public speaker, political scientist and activist. Shafak writes in Turkish and English, and has published 21 books. She is best known for her nove ...

, novelist *1 September –

Hakan Şükür Hakan Şükür (; born 1 September 1971) is a Turkish former professional footballer who played as a striker. Nicknamed the "Bull of the Bosphorus" and ''Kral'' (king), he spent the majority of his professional career with Galatasaray, being a ...

, former footballer and MP *7 November – Kazım Koyuncu, singer

Deaths

*21 March –

Falih Rıfkı Atay Falih Rıfkı Atay (1894 – 20 March 1971) was a Turkish journalist, writer and politician between 1923 and 1950. Biography Falih Rıfkı was the son of Halil Hilmi Efendi, an imam. He was educated in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Falih began hi ...

(aged 77), former journalist and politician *14 July – Kılıç Ali (Ali Kılıç) (aged 81), former military officer and close friend of Atatürk *11 October –

Hikmet Kıvılcımlı Hikmet Ali Kıvılcımlı (1902, Pristina, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire – 1971, Belgrade) was a Turkish Marxist–Leninist–Socialist revolutionary, theoretician, writer, publicist, and translator. He was the founder of the Homeland Pa ...

, leftist politician and writer

Gallery

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References

{{Europe topic, 1971 in Years of the 20th century in Turkey 1971 in Europe 1971 in Asia

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...