1967 in Turkey

← 1966 1965 1964 1967 in Turkey → 1968 1969 1970
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
See also:	List of years in Turkey

Events in the year 1967 in Turkey.[1]

Parliament

• 13th Parliament of Turkey

Incumbents

• President – Cevdet Sunay
• Prime Minister – Süleyman Demirel
• Leader of the opposition – İsmet İnönü

Ruling party and the main opposition

• Ruling party – Justice Party (AP)
• Main opposition – Republican People’s Party (CHP)

Cabinet

• 30th government of Turkey

Events

• 3 January – Anadol, the first Turkish made car
• 30 April – Reliance Party formed.[2]
• 12 May – Reliance Party was founded by Turhan Feyzioğlu
• 4 June – Beşiktaş won the championship of Turkish football league [3]
• 22 July – The 7.1 M_s  Mudurnu earthquake affected the Bolu Province with high intensity shaking, killing 86.
• 27 July – Earthquake in Pülümür (about 1000 km east of the 22 July earthquake)
• 13 September – An agreement about transporting a group of Turks living in the island Adakale in Romania.
• 17 September – More than 40 people died during a fight after the football match between Kayserispor and Sivasspor .
• 31 October – Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktaş was arrested by the Greek Cypriots
• 18 November – Following Greek attacks to Turkish villages in Cyprus Turkish air raids to Greek forces.
• 29 November – Turkey and Greece agreed on a plan to halt the hostilities
• 29 December – Turks in Cyprus formed their own government

Birth

• 1 January – Mehmet Şimşek, government minister
• 27 February – Volkan Konak, singer
• 4 April – Ali Babacan, deputy prime minister
• 4 November – Yılmaz Erdoğan, filmmaker
• 20 November Teoman Yakupoğlu, singer

Deaths

• 9 March – Vala Nureddin (born in 1901), poet and columnist
• 11 March – Yusuf Ziya Ortaç (born in 1895), humorist and publisher
• 17 May – Nurullah Ataç (born in 1898), essayist and literary critic
• 30 June – Yavuz Abadan (born in 1905), academic
• 20 July – Fikret Mualla Saygı (1904), painter
• 23 July – Ahmet Kutsi Tecer (born in 1901), poet and politician
• 5 August – Mustafa İnan (born in 1911), academic and civil engineer
• 13 September – Şerif Muhiddin Targan (born in 1892), musician

Gallery

• 
  Süleyman Demirel
• 
  İsmet İnönü
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  Mehmet Şimşek
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  Volkan Konak
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  Ali Babacan
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  Teoman Yakupoğlu

See also

• 1966–67 1.Lig

References

1. Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 194–200
2. Heper, Metin (2009). Historical Dictionary of Turkey. Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press.
3. Mackolik site