1980 in Turkey

← 1979 1978 1977 1980 in Turkey → 1981 1982 1983
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
See also:	List of years in Turkey

Events in the year 1980 in Turkey.^[1]

Parliament

• 16th Parliament of Turkey (up to 12 September)

Incumbents

• President -

Fahri Korutürk (up to 6 April)

İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil (acting, 6 April – 12 September)

Kenan Evren (from 12 September)

• Prime Minister -

Süleyman Demirel (up to 12 September)

Bülent Ulusu (from 20 September)

• Leader of the opposition -

Bülent Ecevit (up to 12 September)

Ruling party and the main opposition

• Ruling party

Justice Party (AP) (up to 12 September)

• Main opposition

Republican People’s Party (CHP) (up to 12 September)

Cabinet

• 43rd government of Turkey (up to 12 September)
• 44th government of Turkey (from 21 September)

Events

• 2 January – Warning from the army about terrorism
• 8 February – Laborer demonstrations in İzmir and İstanbul
• 26 March – First session in the parliament for electing the new president, no result (just like the following 113 votings)
• 7 April – Fahri Korutürk the 6th president of Turkey left his Office after expiring his legal term
• 25 May -Trabzonspor won the championship of the Turkish football league^[2]
• 5 August - Hazal a film by Ali Özgentürk won the gramd prix in France.
• 6 August – ASALA militants in Lyon attacked Turkish consulate
• 12 September - Coup d’etat
• 11 October – Census (Population: 44,736,947)
• 13 October - Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 type aircraft was hijacked on the flight from Munich, Germany to Ankara by four radical Islamist militants
• 27 October – Temporary constitution
• 30 October – Bülent Ecevit resigned from his post in the Republican people’s Party (which was passive because of the coup)

Births

• 4 February - Gündüz Gürol Azer, footballer
• 12 April Arda Kural, actor
• 16 July – Sibel Kekilli, actress
• 16 June – Nehir Erdoğan, actress
• 14 October-Cansu Dere, actress
• 12 November – Nur Fettahoğlu, actress

Out of the respective country

• 7 November - Ismail Matev, Bulgarian-Turkish singer-songwriter

Deaths

• 11 April, Ümit Kaftancıoğlu (born in 1935), TV producer (assassinated)
• 18 May – Gündüz Kılıç (born in 1918), football coach
• 19 July – Nihat Erim (born in 1912), former prime minister (33rd and 34th government of Turkey, assassinated)
• 22 July – Kemal Türkler (boen in 1926), trade union leader (assassinated)
• 27 June – Ahmet Muhip Dıranas (born in 1909), poet and author
• 30 November – Orhan Eyüpoğlu (born in 1918), politician

Gallery

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  İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil

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  Süleyman Demirel

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  Bülent Ecevit

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  Sibel Kekilli

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  Nihat Erim

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  Ahmet Muhip Dıranas

See also

• Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 1980
• 1979–80 1.Lig

Years in Turkey (1923–present)
1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

References

1. ↑ Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 292-300
2. ↑ Mackolik page