1989 in Turkey

Parliament

• 18th Parliament of Turkey

  Incumbents

• President –
• Prime Minister –
• Leader of the opposition – Erdal İnönü

  Ruling party and the main opposition

• Ruling party – Motherland Party
• Main opposition – Social Democratic Populist Party

  Cabinet

• 46th government of Turkey
• 47th government of Turkey

  Events

• 15 January – Bülent Ecevit was elected as the chairman of DSP for the second time
• 26 March – Local elections
• 29 March – A Turkish MP, Abdurrezzak Ceylan, was shot dead in parliament.
• 14 May – The Turkish national wrestling team won the second place in European wrestling championship
• 29 May – A Soviet Mig 29 was hijacked to Trabzon
• 11 June – Some 2,000 Bulgarian Turks were deported to Turkey after being ethnically cleansed from Bulgaria
• 11 June – Fenerbahçe won the championship of the Turkish football league
• 15 June – 4 new provinces established: Aksaray, Bayburt, Karaman, and Kırıkkale
• 17 Septembel – Weightlifter Naim Süleymanoğlu won 4 gold medals in the Athens World Weightlifting Championships
• 21 October – Two Syrian warplanes shot down a civil cartography plane within Turkey, killing five.
• 31 October – Prime Minister Turgut Özal was elected as the new president ; Ali Bozer was appointed as the acting prime minister
• 9 November – The new president appointed Yıldırım Akbulut as the new prime minister

  Births

• 1 January – Fatih Avan, javelin thrower
• 27 January – Melek Hu, table tennis player
• 28 January – Gamze Tazim, actress
• 9 February – Deniz Aslan, footballer
• 22 February – Gülşah Gümüşay, basketball player
• 21 May – Gülcan Mıngır, middle distance runner
• 5 July – Dilara Buse Günaydın, swimmer
• 10 September – Tolga Ünlü, footballer
• 28 September – Çağla Büyükakçay, tennis player
• 10 October – Rıza Kayaalp, wrestler
• 29 October – Leyla Tuğutlu, model and beauty pageant contestant
• 8 November - Can Yaman, actor
• 10 December – İlknur Melis Durası, engineer and model

  Deaths

• 15 February – Hüseyin Akbaş, wrestler
• 6 March – Fecri Ebcioğlu, DJ and lyricist
• 16 April – Hakkı Yeten footballer and coach
• 14 August – Bergen Sarılmışer, singer
• 13 September – İsmail Rüştü Aksal, civil servant, politician
• 21 September – Ertem Eğilmez, film director
• 9 October – Yusuf Atılgan, novelist

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