1985 in Turkey

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See also:	List of years in Turkey

Events in the year 1985 in Turkey.

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

• 1 January – Value added tax (KDV) was imposed
• 26 February – Tarık Akan's film Pehlivan won honourable mention in 35th Berlin International Film Festival
• 12 March – Turkish embessy attack in Ottawa by a group of Armenian militants.
• 2 April – A plane crash over Balıkesir. 15 deaths
• 2 June – Fenerbahçe won the championship of the Turkish football league
• 27 June – Aydın Güven Gürkan defeated Necdet Calp in the general congress of the People’s Party
• 13 July – Ülkü Söylemezoğlu defeated Turgut Sunalp in the general congress of the Nationalist Democracy Party (MDP)
• 7 September – 7 firemen dead during a big forest fire in Kuşadası.
• 20 October – Census (population 50,664,45)
• 2 November – SODEP and People's Party (HP) merged to form Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP)
• 7 November – Heavy rainfall in İstanbul
• 14 November – Democratic Left Party (DSP) was founded
• 18 November – Rahşan Ecevit was elected as the chairperson of DSP

Births

• 22 January – Yasemin Ergene, actress
• 12 March – Binnaz Uslu, middle distance runner
• 13 March – Taner Sağır, weightlifter
• 23 April – Emrah Keskin, singer and winner of Turkstar
• 17 August – Sema Apak, short distance runner

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

• 
  Binnaz Uslu
• 
  Ruhi Su

See also

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