1985 in Turkey

← 1984 1983 1982 1985 in Turkey → 1986 1987 1988
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
See also:	List of years in Turkey

Events in the year 1985 in Turkey.^[1]

Parliament

• 17th Parliament of Turkey

Incumbents

• President – Kenan Evren
• Prime Minister – Turgut Özal
• Leader of the opposition –

Necdet Calp (up to 27 June)

Aydın Güven Gürkan (from 27 June)

Ruling party and the main opposition

• Ruling party – Motherland Party (ANAP)
• Main opposition

People’s Party (HP) (up to 3 November)

Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP) (from 3 November)

Cabinet

45th government of Turkey

Events

January

• 1 January – Value added tax (KDV) introduced.

February

• 13 February – National Salvation Party leaders are acquitted.^[2]
• 26 February – Tarık Akan's Pehlivan wins honorable mention in 35th Berlin International Film Festival.

March

• 12 March – Armenian terrorists attack the Turkish embassy in Ottawa.

April

• 2 April – Prime Minister Turgut Özal meets President Ronald Reagan.^[2]

June

• 2 June – Fenerbahçe wins the championship.^[3]

July

• 9 July – State visit of Helmut Kohl, chancellor of Federal Republic of Germany.^[2]

October

• 20 October – Census (population 50,664,45)

November

• 3 November – Populist Party and Social Democracy Party merge to form Social Democratic Populist Party.^[2]
• 7 November – Heavy rainfall in Istanbul
• 14 November – Rahşan Ecevit, wife of Bülent Ecevit, founds Democratic Left Party (DSP).^[2]
• 18 November – Rahşan Ecevit elected as the chairperson of Democratic Left Party (DSP).

Births

• 12 March – Binnaz Uslu, middle distance runner
• 13 March – Taner Sağır, weightlifter
• 23 April – Emrah Keskin, singer and winner of Türkstar
• 17 August – Sema Apak, short distance runner
• 5 November – Pınar Saka, sprinter

Deaths

• 20 September – Ruhi Su (born in 1912), folk singer
• 7 October – Cemal Reşit Rey (born in 1904), composer
• 24 November – Sinan Alaağaç (born 1960), footballer (goalkeeper)
• 29 November – Afet İnan (born in 1908), academic (Atatürk's adoptive daughter)

Gallery

• 
  Kenan Evren
• 
  Turgut Özal
• 
  Binnaz Uslu
• 
  Ruhi Su

See also

• Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 1984
• 1984–85 1.Lig

References