Events in the year 1997 in Turkey.

Parliament

20th Parliament of Turkey This is a list of the 550 Members of Parliament elected in the 1995 Turkish general election, 1995 general election held in Turkey. The MPs are listed by Provinces of Turkey, province. Turkey uses a D'Hondt formula, D'Hondt proportional representa ...

Incumbents

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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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Necmettin Erbakan Necmettin Erbakan (29 October 1926 – 27 February 2011) was a Turkish politician and political theorist who served as the 23rd prime minister of Turkey from 1996 to 1997. He was pressured by the military to step down as prime minister and was la ...

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Mesut Yılmaz Ahmet Mesut Yılmaz () (6 November 1947 – 30 October 2020) was a Turkish politician. He was the leader of the Motherland Party (, ANAP) from 1991 to 2002, and served three times as Prime Minister of Turkey. His first two prime-ministerial term ...

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Ruling party and the main opposition

* Ruling party :: Welfare Party (RP) with coalition partner True Path Party (DYP) :: Motherland Party (ANAP) with coalition partners Democratic Left Party (DSP) and

Democrat Turkey Party Democrat Turkey Party (, DTP) is a former political party in Turkey The party was founded by a group of MPs issued from the True Path Party on 7 January 1997. The chairman of the party was Hüsamettin Cindoruk, who was a former chairman of the Tr ...

(DTP) * Main opposition :: Motherland Party (ANAP) (up to 30 June) :: Welfare Party (RP) (from 30 June)

Cabinet

54th government of Turkey The 54th government of Turkey governed Turkey from 28 June 1996 to 30 June 1997. It was a coalition government formed by Welfare Party (RP) and True Path Party (DYP), and was known as ''Refahyol'' (a portmanteau of the Turkish names of the two ...

(up to 30 June) * 55th government of Turkey (from 30 June)

Events

*8 January – Democrat Turkey Party was founded by

Hüsamettin Cindoruk Ahmet Hüsamettin Cindoruk (born 8 June 1933) is a Turkish politician and the 17th Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey between 1991 and 1995. He was also the acting president of Turkey in 1993 and the leader of two political parties, notably o ...

. *11 January – Prime minister Necmettin Erbakan invited religious order leaders to his Office . This invitation caused political unrest *24 January – Sabotage to Kirkuk–Ceyhan Oil Pipeline *2 February – Beginning of a civil disobedience action ''1 minute darkness for a continuous light'' by turning off the lights every night for 1 minute *28 February – In a meeting of

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the military members of the council asked for a secular administration (This event later on was ironically called ''post modern coup'') *23 April – On children’s day,

Tansu Çiller Tansu Çiller (; born 24 May 1946) is a Turkish academic, economist, and politician who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Turkey from 1993 to 1996. She was Turkey's first and only female prime minister. As the leader of the True Path Party ...

, the vice prime minister, announced that the compulsory education was raised from 5 years to 8 years *15 May – Turkey enters northern

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with the stated aim of "supporting

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actions against the PKK." *16 May –

Yaşar Kemal Yaşar Kemal (; born Kemal Sadık Gökçeli; 6 October 1923 – 28 February 2015) was a leading Turkish writer of Kurdish descent, who wrote in Turkish and a human rights activist. He received 38 awards during his lifetime and had been a candid ...

won

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*22 May – Four male and six female Turkish weightlifters won the gold medal in 1997 European Weightlifting Championships *25 May –

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 ...

won the championship of the

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to form the new government. *25 October – Bus accident in

Konya Province Konya Province () is a province and metropolitan municipality in southwest Central Anatolia, Turkey. Its area is 40,838 km2, making it the largest province by area, and its population is 2,296,347 (2022). The provincial capital is the city ...

49 deaths *14 December – At the Luxembourg summit, the

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decided to continue negotiations with Turkey

Deaths

*4 April –

Alparslan Türkeş Alparslan Türkeş (; 25 November 1917 – 4 April 1997) was a Turkish politician, who was the founder and president of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and the Grey Wolves ''(Ülkü Ocakları)''. He ran the Grey Wolves training camps from ...

(born 1917), politician *4 May –

Esin Engin Esin Engin (May 17, 1945 – May 4, 1997) was a Turkish musician, composer, arranger and film actor. Biography He was born in Sivas, Turkey in 1945 to a family of Crimean Tatar origin. He graduated from North Collins High School in New York, U ...

(born 1945), musician *20 June –

Cahit Külebi Cahit Külebi (20 December 1917, in Tokat – 20 June 1997, in Ankara) was a leading Turkish people, Turkish poet and author. He has an important place in contemporary Turkish poetry due to his attachment to folk poetry traditions. His poetry is ...

(born 1917), poet *2 July –

Ayhan Songar Ayhan Songar (1926–1997) was a Turkish academic and psychiatrist. He is also known for his activities in sufism, music, cybernetics and photography. He was part of the conservative think thank Intellectuals' Hearth (IH) and headed the Green C ...

(born 1926), academic and psychiatrist *26 August –

Füreya Koral Füreya Koral (June 2, 1910 – August 25, 1997) was a pioneering Pottery, ceramics artist born into a prominent artistic family in Turkey. Known for her wall panels, Koral worked in a variety of media such as tiles and Figurine, statuette ...

(born 1910), ceramist *26 December –

Cahit Arf Cahit Arf (; 24 October 1910 – 26 December 1997) was a Turkish people, Turkish mathematician. He is known for the Arf invariant of a quadratic form in characteristic (algebra), characteristic 2 (applied in knot theory and surgery theory) in ...

(born 1910), mathematician

Gallery

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References

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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 ...

Years of the 20th century in Turkey

1990s in Turkey