1988 in Turkey

Parliament

• 18th Parliament of Turkey

  Incumbents

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

  Ruling party and the main opposition

• Ruling party – Motherland Party
• Main opposition – Social Democratic Populist Party

  Cabinet

• 46th government of Turkey

  Events

• 28 February – First heart transplant in Turkey
• 1 March – Erdal İnönü resigned from the presidency of SHP, but revoked his resignation
• 8 March – Necdet Karababa replaced Bülent Ecevit in DSP after the resignation of Bülent Ecevit.
• 27 April – Weightlifter Naim Süleymanoğlu won three gold medals in Cardiff European Weightlifting Championships
• 29 May – Galatasaray won the championship of the Turkish football league
• 17 June – Assassination attempt to prime minister Turgut Özal
• 3 July – Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge over Bosphorous
• 20 September – Weightlifter Naim Süleymanoğlu won gold medal in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
• 25 September – Referendum on moving the scheduled local elections to an earlier date. Rejected.
• 20 November – Chess player Suat Atalık gained the title grandmaster in Chess Olympiad
• 29 December – DSP chairman Necdet Karababa resigned

  Births

• 5 January – Ziya Erdal, footballer
• 8 January – Burcu Erbaş, basketball player
• 2 February – Turgut Doğan Şahin, footballer
• 10 April – Özgürcan Özcan, footballer
• 1 May – Tuğçe Şahutoğlu, hammer thrower
• 11 May – Tuğçe Hocaoğlu, volleyball player
• 31 May – Didem Ege, volleyball player
• 8 June – Begüm Dalgalar – basketball player
• 13 July – Neriman Özsoy, volleyball player
• 7 September – Yağmur Koçyiğit, volleyball player
• 26 September – Servet Tazegül, taekwondo practitioner
• 28 September – Bahar Çağlar, basketball player
• 15 October – Mesut Özil, footballer

  Deaths

• 8 January – Duygu Aykal, ballerina
• 24 March – Turhan Feyzioğlu, lawyer, politician
• 18 April – Oktay Rifat, novelist
• 1 May – Altan Erbulak, caricaturist, theatre actor
• 31 May – Lütfi Akadlı, lawyer
• 3 September – Ferit Melen, former prime minister

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