1983 in Turkey

Parliament

• 17th Parliament of Turkey

  Incumbents

• President – Kenan Evren
• Prime Minister –
• Leader of the opposition – Necdet Calp

  Ruling party and the main opposition

• Ruling party
• Main opposition – People’s Party

  Cabinet

Events

• 16 January – Turkish Airlines Flight 158, a Boeing 727-200 landing failure, in Ankara Esenboğa airport caught fire.45 deaths
• 2 March – Three free trade zones were created in Antalya, Yumurtalık and Aliağa
• 7 March – Mine accident in Zonguldak 79 deaths
• 9 March – Galip Balkar, Turkish ambassador to Yugoslavia was assassinated by an Armenian group
• 7 May – 35 deaths in an İstanbul hotel fire
• 15 May – National Democracy Party, the first political party after the coup of 1980 was founded
• 21 May – Motherland Party, People’s Party and Great Turkey Party were founded
• 26 May – Social Democracy Party was founded
• 1 June – BTP was closed by the military rule. Süleyman Demirel, former prime minister as well as other politicians of the former Justice Party and Republican People’s Party were arrested
• 5 July – 1983 Biga earthquake
• 14 July – Dursun Aksoy a member of Turkish embassy was assassinated by ASALA
• 23 June – Erdal İnönü’s name as the founder of SODEP was rejected by the military rule
• 27 June – SODEP decided to continue and Cezmi Kartay replaced Erdal İnönü as the chairman of SODEP
• 15 July – Turkish Airlines check in counter was bombed in Paris. 7 deaths
• 22 October – First panel discussion of the political party leaders on TV after the 1980 coup
• 30 October 1983 Erzurum earthquake, 1330 deaths
• 2 November – First successful kidney transplantation in İstanbul.
• 6 November general elections
• 12 November – Port of Mersin and Port of Antalya were declared free port
• 13 December – First civilian government after the coup of 1980.
• 18 December – Erdal İnönü replaced Cezmi Kartay as the chairman of SODEP

  Births

• 23 January – Makbule Baldik, hang glider pilot
• 16 June – Naz Elmas, actress
• 29 August – Saadet Aksoy, actress
• 10 October – Tolga Zengin, footballer
• 29 October – Nurcan Taylan, weight lifter
• 9 December – Neslihan Demir volleyball player

  Deaths

• 5 January – İbrahim Safi, painter
• 8 January – Hüseyin Alp, basketball player
• 19 January – Muhittin Taylan, chief of constitutional court and one time candidate of presidency
• 9 March – Galip Balkar, ambassador
• 24 May – Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, poet
• 28 May – Çiğdem Talu, music lyricist
• 2 September – Feri Cansel, actress

  Gallery