Events in the year 1992 in Turkey.

Parliament

Incumbents

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) *President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ...

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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 ...

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

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Süleyman Demirel Süleyman Sami Demirel (; 1 November 1924 – 17 June 2015) was a Turkish people, Turkish politician, engineer, and statesman who served as the List of Presidents of Turkey, 9th President of Turkey from 1993 to 2000. He previously served as the ...

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Mesut Yılmaz Ahmet Mesut Yılmaz () (6 November 1947 – 30 October 2020) was a Turkish politician. He was the leader of the Motherland Party ( tr, Anavatan Partisi, ANAP) from 1991 to 2002, and served three times as Prime Minister of Turkey. His first two p ...

Ruling party and the main opposition

* Ruling party – True Path Party (DYP) * Main opposition – Motherland Party (ANAP)

Cabinet

* 49th government of Turkey

Events

*2 January – Avalanche in

Hakkari Province Hakkari or Hakkâri may refer to: *Hakkari (historical region), a historical region in modern-day Turkey and Iraq *Hakkâri (city), a city and the capital of Hakkâri Province, Turkey *Hakkâri Province, a province in southeast Turkey * Hakkari (e ...

, 19 deaths *1 February – Avalanche in

Şırnak Province Şırnak Province ( tr, Şırnak ili, ku, Parêzgeha Şirnexê) is a province of Turkey in the Southeastern Anatolia Region. Şırnak Province was created in 1990, with areas that were formerly part of the Siirt and Mardin Provinces. It borders b ...

, 91 deaths *3 March – Mine accident in

Zonguldak Province Zonguldak Province ( tr, ) is a province along the western Black Sea coast region of Turkey. The province is 3.481 km in size and has a population of 619,703. Its adjacent provinces are Düzce to the southwest, Bolu to the south, Karabük t ...

, 122 deaths *13 March – The 6.7 Erzincan earthquake shook area with a maximum

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of VIII (''Severe''), killing 498–652 and injuring 2,000. *16 May – Clash between the armed forces and the

Pkk The Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK is a Kurds, Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla warfare, guerrilla List of guerrilla movements, movement, which historically operated throughout Kurdistan, but is now primarily based ...

in Şırnak Province *17 May –

Beşiktaş Beşiktaş () is a district and municipality of Istanbul, Turkey, located on the European shore of the Bosphorus strait. It is bordered on the north by Sarıyer and Şişli, on the west by Kağıthane and Şişli, on the south by Beyoğlu, and ...

won the championship of the

Turkish football league Turkish may refer to: *a Turkic language spoken by the Turks * of or about Turkey ** Turkish language *** Turkish alphabet ** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation *** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey *** Turkish communities and mi ...

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Double trap Double trap is a shotgun shooting sport, one of the ISSF shooting events. Participants use a shotgun to attempt to break a clay disk flung away from the shooter at high speed. The layout of double trap shooting is similar to that of trap shoot ...

championship, Turkish team won the gold medal *19 June – All parties closed by the previous military government were given the right to be reestablished *24 June – Organization of the

Black Sea Economic Cooperation The Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) is a regional international organization focusing on multilateral political and economic initiatives aimed at fostering cooperation, peace, stability and prosperity in the Black Sea ...

treaty was signed in İstanbul *28 July – Weightlifter

Naim Süleymanoğlu Naim Süleymanoğlu ( bg, Наим Сюлейманоглу; 23 January 1967 – 18 November 2017) was a Bulgarian-born Turkish Olympic weightlifter. He was a seven-time World Weightlifting champion and a three-time Olympic gold medalist ...

won gold medal in World championship in Barselona *30 August – Clash between the armed forces and Pkk. *9 September –

Republican People's Party The Republican People's Party ( tr, Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi, , acronymized as CHP ) is a Kemalist and social-democratic political party in Turkey which currently stands as the main opposition party. It is also the oldest political party ...

(CHP) was refounded on the 59th anniversary of the CHP's former establishment (Most members are from the Social Democrat Populist Party (SHP) *29 September – Clash between the armed forces and Pkk in Hakkari Province *16 October and the following days – In a hot pursuit operation armed forces entered

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

*23 November – In World Karate championship held in

Granada Granada (,, DIN 31635, DIN: ; grc, Ἐλιβύργη, Elibýrgē; la, Illiberis or . ) is the capital city of the province of Granada, in the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the fo ...

, Veysel Bumin won the gold medal *13 January – President vetoed the

ILO The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency whose mandate is to advance social and economic justice by setting international labour standards. Founded in October 1919 under the League of Nations, it is the first and ol ...

convention *2 December – Split in ANAP *31 December – The film

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was banned

Births

*1 January – Esma Aydemir, middle-distance runner *3 February – Berkin Kamil Arslan, footballer *7 February –

Engin Bekdemir Engin Bekdemir (born 7 February 1992) is a professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for TFF Second League club Ankaraspor. Born in Belgium, he has represented Turkey at international levels up to under-21s. Career Kayserispo ...

, footballer *14 August – Barış Yardımcı, footballer *23 February – Şaziye Okur, weightlifter *2 March –

Kerem Bulut Kerem Bulut (born 3 February 1992) is an Australian professional football player. Bulut represented the Australia under-20 national team at the 2010 AFC U-19 Championship, where he scored seven goals in six games to win the Golden Boot as Aust ...

, footballer *27 March –

Kıvılcım Kaya Kıvılcım Kaya Salman (; born Kıvılcim Kaya on March 27, 1992, in Ankara) is a Turkish female hammer thrower. She is the daughter of the former Turkish national wrestler Ziya Kaya. She began working with Artun Talay, who guided to Eşref Apa ...

, hammer thrower *10 April –

Atila Turan Atila Turan (born 10 April 1992) is a professional footballer who plays for Turkish TFF Second League club Kocaelispor. Born in France, he represents the Turkey national team internationally, having played for France at youth international leve ...

, footballer *10 May –

Barış Örücü Barış Örücü (born 10 May 1992) is a footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for Sakaryaspor. Born in Germany, he represented that nation at under-18 youth level before being selected for Turkey's 'A2' team. Career He mad ...

, footballer *3 August – Gamze Bulut, distance runner *16 August –

Nur Tatar Nur Tatar Askari (born August 16, 1992 in Van, Turkey) is a world and European champion Turkish female taekwondo practitioner competing in the feather, light and welterweight divisions. She is of Kurdish descent. She was a member of the TSE Sport ...

, taekwondo practitioner *7 September –

Gizem Karaca Gizem Karaca (born 7 September 1992) is a Turkish actress and model who represented her country at the Miss World 2011 competition. Karaca competed at the Miss Turkey competition held on 2 June 2011 at TIM Show Centre and finished second overal ...

, model *24 October –

Emel Türkyılmaz Emel Sığırcı (born 24 October 1992 in Ayvalık, Turkey) is a Turkish basketball player. She currently plays for the Turkish professional basketball club İzmit Belediyespor İzmit Belediyespor is a Turkish women's basketball club based i ...

, basketball player *26 October –

Ayşegül Günay Ayşegül Günay Aladağ (born October 26, 1992) is a Turkish female basketball player. The tall national plays point guard. Currently, she is a member of Botaş SK. Formerly, Günay played in the youth and junior teams of Migros Spor, Fenerba ...

, basketball player

Deaths

*7 February –

Mevhibe İnönü Mevhibe İnönü (September 22, 1897 – February 29, 1992) was the First Lady of Turkey from November 11, 1938 until May 27, 1950 during the presidency of her husband İsmet İnönü. Early years She was born on September 22, 1897 at Süleyman ...

(born 1897), İsmet İnönü's wife *13 April –

Feza Gürsey Feza Gürsey (; April 7, 1921 – April 13, 1992) was a Turkish mathematician and physicist. Among his most prominent contributions to theoretical physics, his works on the Chiral model and on SU(6) are most popular. Early life Feza Gürse ...

(born 1921), physicist *22 July –

Toto Karaca İrma Felekyan, better known as Toto Karaca (18 March 1912 – 22 July 1992), was a Turkish stage actress. Of Armenian descent, Felekyan was born on March 18, 1912 in the Ottoman Empire. Her mother was Mari Hranuş Felekyan. She learned ballet ...

(born 1912), theatre actor *29 July – Kemal Kayacan (born 1915), admiral *9 August –

Aytekin Kotil Aytekin Kotil (1934–1992) was a Turkish social democratic politician. He was the mayor of Istanbul being a pioneer in the municipal socialism in Turkey. He was also a member of the Turkish Parliament. Early life and education Kotil was born in ...

(born 1934), politician *5 October –

Adile Ayda Adile Ayda (7 March 1912 – 5 October 1992) was the first woman career diplomat of Turkey, but is today better remembered as an Etruscologist. She became interested in Etruscan studies while stationed in Rome as the Minister-Counsellor of the ...

(born 1912), diplomat

Gallery

File:Suleyman Demirel 1998.jpg, Süleyman Demirel File:Kerem Bulut.jpg, Kerem Bulut

Sports

* Turkey at the 1992 Summer Olympics * Turkey at the 1992 Winter Olympics

References

{{Year in Asia, 1992 Years of the 20th century in Turkey

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