1986_in_Turkey
1986 in Turkey
List of events
Events in the year 1986 in Turkey.[1]
- Aydın Güven Gürkan (up to 30 May)
- Erdal İnönü (from 30 May)
- Ruling party – Motherland Party (ANAP)
- Main opposition – Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP)
May
- 4 May – Nationalist Democracy Party (MDP) is dissolved.[2]
- 9 May – Free Democratic Party founded.[2]
- 16 May – True Path Party (DYP) forms parliamentary group.[2]
- 16 May – Eyüp Can wins bronze at the 1986 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Reno, United States
- 30 May – Erdal Inönü elected chairman of Social Democratic Populist Party (SDPP).[2]
June
- 1 June – Beşiktaş wins the championship[3]
August
- 15 August – Turkey bombs separatist enclaves in Northern Iraq.[2]
September
- 6 September – 22 die in the terror attack to the Neve Shalom Synagogue in Istanbul.
October
November
- 12 November – Tanju Çolak wins European Golden Shoe.
- 30 November – Free Democratic Party dissolves.[2]
December
- 9 February – Azize Tanrıkulu, taekwondo athlete
- 16 February – Nevin Yanıt, sprinter
- 22 February – Işıl Alben, basketball player
- 23 February – Serhat Çetin, basketball player
- 3 March – Mehmet Topal, footballer
- 4 June – Tolgahan Acar, footballer
- 25 June – Seda Tokatlıoğlu, volleyball player
- 16 September – Resul Tekeli, basketball player
- 9 January – Nurullah Berk (born 1906), painter
- 10 January – Celal Yardımcı (born 1911), politician
- 7 May – Haldun Taner (born 1915), writer
- 28 May – Edip Cansever, (born 1928), poet
- 22 August – Celal Bayar (born 1883), former president
- Kenan Evren
- Turgut Özal
- Nevin Yanıt
- Işıl Alben
- Mehmet Topal
- Celal Bayar
- Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 335–345
- Heper, Metin (2009). Historical Dictionary of Turkey. Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press.