Events in the year 1997 in Turkey.

Parliament

20th Parliament of Turkey This is a list of the 550 Members of Parliament elected in the 1995 Turkish general election, 1995 general election held in Turkey. The MPs are listed by Provinces of Turkey, province. Turkey uses a D'Hondt formula, D'Hondt proportional representati ...

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 ...

– Süleyman Demirel *

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 i ...

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Necmettin Erbakan Necmettin Erbakan (29 October 1926 – 27 February 2011) was a Turkish politician, engineer, and academic who was the Prime Minister of Turkey from 1996 to 1997. He was pressured by the military to step down as prime minister and was later ban ...

(up to 30 June) ::

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 ...

(from 30 June) * Leader of the opposition – ::

(up to 30 June) ::

(from 30 June)

Ruling party and the main opposition

* Ruling party :: Welfare Party (RP) with coalition partner True Path Party (DYP) :: Motherland Party (ANAP) with coalition partners Democratic Left Party (DSP) and

Democrat Turkey Party Democrat Turkey Party ( tr, Demokrat Türkiye Partisi, DTP) is a former political party in Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located ...

(DTP) * Main opposition :: Motherland Party (ANAP) (up to 30 June) :: Welfare Party (RP) (from 30 June)

Cabinet

54th government of Turkey The 54th government of Turkey governed Turkey from 28 June 1996 to 30 June 1997. It was a coalition government formed by Welfare Party (RP) and True Path Party (DYP), and was known as ''Refahyol'' (a portmanteau of the Turkish names of the two pa ...

(up to 30 June) *

55th government of Turkey The 55th government of Turkey (30 June 1997 – 11 January 1999) was a coalition government led by Mesut Yılmaz of Motherland Party (ANAP). Coalition partners with Motherland Party were Democratic Left Party (DSP) and Democrat Turkey Party De ...

(from 30 June)

Events

*8 January – Democrat Turkey Party was founded by

Hüsamettin Cindoruk Ahmet Hüsamettin Cindoruk (born 8 June 1933) is a Turkish politician and the 17th Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey between 1991 and 1995. He was also the acting president of Turkey in 1993 and the leader of two political parties, notably o ...

. *11 January – Prime minister Necmettin Erbakan invited religious order leaders to his Office . This invitation caused political unrest *24 January – Sabotage to Kirkuk–Ceyhan Oil Pipeline *2 February – Beginning of a civil disobedience action ''1 minute darkness for a continuous light'' by turning off the lights every night for 1 minute *28 February – In a meeting of National Security Council the military members of the council asked for a secular administration (This event later on was ironically called ''post modern coup'') *23 April – On children’s day,

Tansu Çiller Tansu Çiller (; born 24 May 1946) is a Turkish academic, economist and politician who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Turkey from 1993 to 1996. She is Turkey's first and only female prime minister to date. As the leader of the True Path ...

, the vice prime minister, announced that the compulsory education was raised from 5 years to 8 years *15 May – Turkey enters northern

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 the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and K ...

with the stated aim of "supporting

KDP KDP may refer to: * Communist Party of Germany (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands) * Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraqi Kurdistan * Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran of Iranian Kurdistan * Korea Democratic Party * Khmer Democratic Party *Kappa Del ...

actions against the

PKK The Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement, which historically operated throughout Kurdistan, but is now primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of sout ...

." *16 May –

Yaşar Kemal Yaşar Kemal (born Kemal Sadık Gökçeli; 6 October 1923 – 28 February 2015) was a Turkish writer and human rights activist and one of Turkey's leading writers. He received 38 awards during his lifetime and had been a candidate for the Nobe ...

won

Peace Prize of the German Book Trade is an international peace prize awarded annually by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (English: ''German Publishers and Booksellers Association''), which runs the Frankfurt Book Fair. The award ceremony is held in the Paulskirche in ...

*22 May – Four male and six female Turkish weightlifters won the gold medal in 1997 European Weightlifting Championships *25 May –

Galatasaray Galatasaray Spor Kulübü (, ''Galatasaray Sports Club'') is a Turkish sports club based on the European side of the city of Istanbul in Turkey. Most notable for its association football department, the club also consists of various other de ...

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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to form the new government. *25 October – Bus accident in

Konya Province Konya Province ( tr, ), in southwest Central Anatolia, is the largest province of Turkey. The provincial capital is the city of Konya. Its traffic code is 42. The Kızılören solar power plant in Konya will be able to produce 22.5 megaw ...

49 deaths *14 December – At the Luxembourg summit, the

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been de ...

decided to continue negotiations with Turkey

Death

*4 April – Alparslan Türkeş (born in 1917), politician *4 May –

Esin Engin Esin Engin (May 17, 1945 – May 4, 1997) was a Turkish musician, composer, arranger and film actor. Biography He was born in Sivas, Turkey in 1945 to a family of Crimean Tatar origin. He graduated from North Collins High School in New York, U ...

(born in 1945), musician *20 June – Cahit Külebi (born in 1917), poet *26 August –

Füreya Koral Füreya Koral (June 2, 1910 – August 25, 1997) was a pioneering Pottery, ceramics artist born into a prominent artistic family in Turkey. Known for her wall panels, Koral worked in a variety of media such as tiles and Figurine, statuettes, ...

(born in 1910), ceramist *26 December – Cahit Arf (born in 1910), mathematician

Gallery

File:Suleyman Demirel 1998.jpg, Süleyman Demirel File:Necmettin-Erbakan.jpg , Necmettin Erbakan

References

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Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

Years of the 20th century in Turkey

1990s in Turkey