The 17th Grand National Assembly of Turkey existed from 6 November 1983 to 29 November 1987. Actually there is one other parliament between the 16th parliament of Turkey and the 17th parliament of Turkey. But the members of the chamber of deputies in 1981-83 term were appointed members rather than elected members and usually chamber of deputies is not included in the list of the parliaments in Turkey. There were 399 MPs in the parliament . Motherland Party (ANAP) held the majority. Populist Party (HP) and

Nationalist Democracy Party Nationalist Democracy Party ( tr, Milliyetçi Demokrasi Partisi, MDP) was a former political party in Turkey. Background About one year after the coup of 1980, all political parties were closed by the military regime, or the so-called National ...

(MDP) were the other parties. The parties of pre 1980 era were closed by the military rule of

Coup d'état A coup d'état (; French for 'stroke of state'), also known as a coup or overthrow, is a seizure and removal of a government and its powers. Typically, it is an illegal seizure of power by a political faction, politician, cult, rebel group, m ...

. (Some later on were refounded.)

Main parliamentary milestones

Some of the important events in the history of the parliament are the following:Türkiye'nin 75 Yılı; Tempo Yayıncılık, İstanbul *4 December 1983-

Necmettin Karaduman Necmettin Karaduman (1927, Trabzon – 22 June 2017, Istanbul) was a Turkish politician, who was the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey The Grand National Assembly of Turkey ( tr, ), usually referred to simply as the TBMM or P ...

was elected as the speaker of the Turkish parliament *13 December 1984 –

Turgut Özal Halil Turgut Özal (; 13 October 192717 April 1993) was a Turkish politician, who served as the 8th President of Turkey from 1989 to 1993. He previously served as the 26th Prime Minister of Turkey from 1983 to 1989 as the leader of the Mothe ...

formed the

45th government of Turkey The 45th government of Turkey (13 December 1983 – 21 December 1987) was the first civilian government founded after the 1980 Turkish coup d'état. It is also known as ''the first Özal government''. Background Motherland Party (ANAP) won t ...

*2 November 1985 –

SODEP The Social Democracy Party ( tr, Sosyal Demokrasi Partisi, SODEP) of Turkey was one of the two main parties of Turkey in early 1980s but later on merged with the People's Party to form the Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP) in 1985. Ideolo ...

and HP two parties sharing the same background were merged. The new party was named Social Democratic Peoples Party (SHP) *4 May 1986 – MDP dissolved itself *9 May 1965 - Free Democratic Party was founded by Mehmet Yazar *28 November 1986 – Free Democratic Party merged to ANAP *6 September 1987 - Referendum on the political rights of the pre-1980 politicians (ANAP campaigned for the rejection) It was accepted by a very narrow margin *29 November 1987 –

General election A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...

References

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