1998 in Turkey
Events in the year 1998 in Turkey.[1]
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Parliament
    
    
Incumbents
    
- Necmettin Erbakan (up to 16 January)
- Recai Kutan (from 14 May)
 
Ruling party and the main opposition
    
- Ruling party
- Motherland Party (ANAP) with coalition partners Democratic Left Party (DSP) and Democrat Turkey Party (DTP)
 
- Main opposition
- Welfare Party (RP) (up to 16 January)
- Virtue Party (from 14 May)
 
Cabinet
    
    
Events
    
- 3 January – First Wind farm of Turkey in İzmir Province
- 17 January – Welfare Party (main party of the 54th government of Turkey) was closed by the court
- 17 February – First female military pilots graduated from the military academy
- 10 May – Galatasaray won the championship of the Turkish football league[2]
- 27 June – The 6.3 Mw Adana–Ceyhan earthquake shook the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving at least 145 dead and 1,500–1,600 injured.
- 1 July – Agreement with the International Money Fund
- 18 August – Operation against the Turkish mafia. Subsequently, relations between some politicians and mafia were revealed
- 16 September – Atilla Ateş, the land forces commander, accused Syria of "hosting terrorists."[3]
- 6 November – High court deposed Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the future prime minister, as İstanbul Mayor [4]
Deaths
    
    January
    
- January 11 - Aydan Siyavuş, basketball coach and player (b. 1947)
- January 14 - Safiye Ayla, singers of Turkish classical music (b. 1907)
March
    
- March 16 - Pertev Naili Boratav, folklorist and researcher of folk literature (b. 1907)
- March 17 - Ecmel Kutay, general and 24th Mayor of Istanbul (b. 1927)
- March 19 - Sabiha Rüştü Bozcalı, visual artist and illustrator (b. 1904)
April
    
- April 12 - Hanzade Osmanoğlu, Ottoman princess (b. 1923)
May
    
- May 15 - Naim Talu, economist, politician and former Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1919)
- May 16 - Sevim Tanürek, singers of Turkish classical music (b. 1934)
June
    
- June 26 - Hacı Sabancı, businessman and philanthropist (b. 1935)
July
    
- July 17 - Sedat Celasun, general and former General Commander of the Gendarmerie of Turkey (b. 1915)
- July 26 - Zeki Kuneralp, diplomat (b. 1914)
August
     
- August 7 - Bekir Büyükarkın, poet and novelist (b. 1921)
- August 23 - Ahmet Hamdi Boyacıoğlu, judge and former president Constitutional Court of Turkey (b. 1920)
- August 31 - Sabiha Gökçül Erbay, teacher and politician (b. 1900)
September
    
- September 1 - Osman F. Seden, film director, screenwriter and film producer (b. 1924)
- September 5 - Lütfü Aksoy, footballer (b. 1911)
- September 7 - Şaban Kartal, footballer (b. 1952)
- September 13 - Necdet Calp, civil servant and politician (b. 1922)
October
    
- October 5 - Ahmet Uzel, composer (b. 1930)
November
    
- November 8 - Erol Taş, actor Constitutional Court of Turkey (b. 1928)
Gallery
    
 Süleyman Demirel Süleyman Demirel
 Necmettin Erbakan Necmettin Erbakan
 Recai Kutan Recai Kutan
 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
 Erol Taş Erol Taş
See also
    
    
References
    
- Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 505–511
- Mackolik page
- Hürriyet newspaper
- Vowturkey
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