1985 in Turkey

Parliament

• 17th Parliament of Turkey

  Incumbents

• President – Kenan Evren
• Prime Minister – Turgut Özal
• Leader of the opposition –

  Ruling party and the main opposition

• Ruling party – Motherland Party
• Main opposition

  Cabinet

Events

• 1 January – Value added tax was imposed
• 26 February – Tarık Akan's film Pehlivan won honourable mention in 35th Berlin International Film Festival
• 12 March – Turkish embessy attack in Ottawa by a group of Armenian militants.
• 2 April – A plane crash over Balıkesir. 15 deaths
• 2 June – Fenerbahçe won the championship of the Turkish football league
• 27 June – Aydın Güven Gürkan defeated Necdet Calp in the general congress of the People’s Party
• 13 July – Ülkü Söylemezoğlu defeated Turgut Sunalp in the general congress of the Nationalist Democracy Party
• 7 September – 7 firemen dead during a big forest fire in Kuşadası.
• 20 October – Census
• 2 November – SODEP and People's Party merged to form Social Democratic Populist Party
• 7 November – Heavy rainfall in İstanbul
• 14 November – Democratic Left Party was founded
• 18 November – Rahşan Ecevit was elected as the chairperson of DSP

  Births

• 12 March – Binnaz Uslu, middle distance runner
• 13 March – Taner Sağır, weightlifter
• 23 April – Emrah Keskin, singer and winner of Türkstar
• 17 August – Sema Apak, short distance runner

  Deaths

• 20 September – Ruhi Su , folk singer
• 7 October – Cemal Reşit Rey, composer
• 24 November – Sinan Alaağaç, footballer
• 29 November – Afet İnan, academic

  Gallery