1982 in Turkey

Incumbents

• President – Kenan Evren
• Prime Minister – Bülent Ulusu

  Ruling party

• Ruling party –

  Cabinet

• 44th government of Turkey

  Events

• 9 January – The flow direction of sea traffic in Bosphorous was changed from left to right
• 28 January – Kemal Arıkan, the Turkish consul in Los Angeles was assassinated by a group of Armenians
• 23 April – First color TV broadcast of TRT
• 4 May – Orhan Gündüz, Turkish honorary consul in Boston was assassinated by the Armenian JCAG
• 7 June – Erkut Akbay and his wife Nadide Akbay, administrative attachés of the Turkish embassy in Lisbon, were assassinated by JCAG
• 13 June – BeÅŸiktaÅŸ won the championship of the Turkish football league
• 20 June – Banker's scandal breaks out, Cevher Özden fled to Switzerland
• 15 July – A revision in the cabinet after the banker’s scandal. Vice prime minister Turgut Özal resigned
• 7 August – Eight deaths in an attack on Ankara EsenboÄŸa airport carried out by the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia
• 27 August – Atilla Altıkat, Turkish military attaché in Ottawa was assassinated by ASALA
• 9 September – Bora Süelkan, administrative attaché of the Turkish Consulate General in Burgas, was assassinated by JCAG
• 15 October – Turkish novelist YaÅŸar Kemal won the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca
• 20 October – Ban on political activities of former politicians by the military rule
• 26 October – Yılmaz Güney, a well known cinema director and actor, was denationalized by the military rule
• 7 November – Referendum on the new Turkish constitution

  Births

• 16 January – Tuncay, footballer
• 4 March – Yasemin Mori, singer
• 15 March – Sencer Sarı, ceramicist
• 12 August – Meryem Uzerli, actress
• 26 August – Gamze Özçelik, model and TV artist
• 11 September – Elvan Abeylegesse, track athlete
• 2 October – Esra Gümüş, volleyball player
• 2 November – Serkan Yalçın, footballer
• 8 December – Halil Altıntop and Hamit Altıntop, footballers

  Deaths

• 28 January – Kemal Arıkan, consul
• 9 April – Turan GüneÅŸ, former vice prime minister
• 4 May – Orhan Gündüz, consul
• 22 May – Cevdet Sunay, former president
• 27 August – Atilla Altıkat, military attaché
• 4 November – Burhan Felek, journalist

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