1979 in Turkey

Parliament

• 16th Parliament of Turkey

  Incumbents

• President – Fahri Korutürk
• Prime Minister –
• Leader of the opposition –

  Ruling party and the main opposition

• Ruling party
• Main opposition

  Cabinet

• 42nd government of Turkey
• 43rd government of Turkey

  Events

• 3 March – The film Sürü was awarded in the 30th Berlin International Film Festival
• 15 March – Turkey withdrew from Central Eastern Treaty Organization, 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.
• 24 May – First Turkish made airplane in Kayseri
• 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 Palestinian group
• 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, singer
• 23 April – Bengü Erden singer
• 2 May – Yasemin Dalkılıç, female free diver

  Deaths

• 1 February – Abdi İpekçi, journalist
• 29 April – Muhsin Ertuğrul, theatre actor
• 16 June – Ayhan Işık, movie actor
• 12 September – Agop Dilaçar, Turkish linguist of Armenian descent
• 28 September – Cevat Yurdakul, prosecutor and police chief of Adana

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