1986 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 – Social Democratic Populist Party

  Cabinet

• 45th government of Turkey

  Events

• 31 January – Turgut Özal-Andreas Papandreou summit in Davos
• 18 March – Citizen’s party was founded by Vural Arıkan the, former Minister of Finance.
• 4 May – Nationalist Democracy Party dissolves itself
• 8 May – MPs of the former MDP joined other parties
• 9 May – Free democratic Party was founded by Mehmet Yazar, most of the party members were from the former MDP
• 16 May – Eyüp Can won bronze medal at the 1986 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Reno, United States
• 30 May – Erdal İnönü was elected as the new chairman of SHP
• 1 June – Beşiktaş won the championship of the Turkish football league
• 6 September – Neve Shalom Synagogue in İstanbul was attacked by an Palestinian group. 22 deaths
• 28 September – By elections
• 6 October – TRT 2, the second TV channel of Turkey
• 12 November – Tanju Çolak, footballer won the European Golden Shoe
• 28 November – HDP dissolved itself and joined ANAP
• 25 December – 20 MP s of SHP joined Democratic Left Party

  Births

• 9 February – Azize Tanrıkulu, taekwondo athlete
• 16 February – Nevin Yanıt, sprinter
• 22 February – Işıl Alben, basketball player
• 23 February – Serhat Çetin, basketball player
• 3 March – Mehmet Topal, footballer
• 4 June – Tolgahan Acar, footballer
• 16 September – Resul Tekeli, basketball player

  Deaths

• 9 January – Nurullah Berk, painter
• 7 May – Haldun Taner, writer
• 28 May – Edip Cansever,, poet
• 22 August – Celal Bayar, former president

  Gallery