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.

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
• 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